Quotes About Temptation

The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception casts us onto some of the steepest ethical terrain we ever cross.

The temptation to start each day with several glazed donuts and to end it with an extramarital affair might be difficult for some people to resist, for reasons that are easily understood in evolutionary terms, but there are surely better ways to maximize one's long-term well-being.

Stiff, huh? I think seeing you roll around on the floor in that tight little outfit accomplished that.

How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?

We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.

Our strength is seen in the things we stand for; our weakness is seen in the things we fall for.

When we go to God by prayer, the devil knows we go to fetch strength against him, and therefore he opposes us all he can.

Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength.

Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out, God give thee strength, O gentle trout, To pull the rascal in!

Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil.

There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.

If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep.

If we didn't have to stand against temptation, we'd never know our own spiritual strength.

O that one unguarded moment! / Were it mine to live again, / All the strength of its temptation / Would appeal to me in vain.

There can be no faith without doubt. No strength without temptation. (Rafael)

But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him.

The enemy will hit you in your area of strength to discourage himself.

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.

Success has less to do with what we can get ourselves to do and more to do with keeping ourselves from doing what we shouldn't.

Now success was like lust, she's good to the touch, She's good for the moment, but she's never enough

The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution in the soul.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do in a pressure situation is to allow the tension to persist. The temptation is to make a decision, any decision, even if it is an inferior choice.