Quotes About Temptation

The gentleman's name was Mr. Worldly-Wise-Man.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.

Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

When power is the only coin, they said, you have nothing left to sell but your soul.

Though Satan instills his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements.

Satan accuses   God of falsehoods of envy, and of malignity, and our first parents   subscribe to a calumny thus vile and execrable.

Man stands under the devil's power, and indeed willingly

since Satan is always breathing down our necks, and is ready and scheming to plunge us into a thousand perils, we ought to be no less watchful and on our guard.

when we are angered by the sins of   others, we should beware lest a temptation of an opposite kind should   take possession of our minds.

men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success

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A busy monk is besieged by a single devil but an idle one is destroyed by spirits innumerable.

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to all people. God is faithful, and He will not let you be tempted beyond your strength, but with the temptation will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

There are also times when the enemy craftily makes the heart find a little rest, in order that it may not invoke the name of God. For, the demons are not ignorant of the fact that they are annoyed by the invocation of God's name. Therefore, knowing this, let us not cease invoking the name of God for our assistance; for, this is the best prayer. It is also said: "Pray unceasingly" (1 Thess 5.17), and unceasingly implies without end or limit.

I have one head that wants to be good, And one that wants to be bad. And always, as soon as I get up, One of my heads is sad.

While leaning over the toilet getting up his nerve, he thought that the moment before making yourself throw up must be very like the instant before suicide. You are almost content to bear the sickening headache and the torment in your stomach rather than go through that moment. But the prospect of relief made you foolhardy and you jammed your finger down your throat.

she is utterly incapable of enjoying a thing. Except the bar of the Colombe and a good flask of wine. And we all know what that leads to.

Franklin Fletcher dreamed of luxury in the form of tiger-skins and beautiful women. He was prepared, at a pinch, to forgo the tiger-skins. Unfortunately the beautiful women seemed equally rare and inaccessible. At his office and at his boarding-house the girls were mere mice, or cattish, or kittenish, or had insufficiently read the advertisements.

Just checking a website or your phone for a moment can cause a series of internal triggers, and in no time you will lose the motivation and focus you had. This can be a big obstacle for students and employees alike.

But there were some who went with her willingly, for there are other women who dream of lying with wolves.

Samuel didn't move. 'What will you do if I climb off the bed?' 'Well I can eat you, or I can drag you down to the depths of Hell, never to seen or heard from again. Depends, really.' 'On what?' 'Lost of things: hygiene, for a start. After tasting that sock, I don't fancy eating any part of you, to be honest, so it'll have to be the depths of Hell for you, I'm afraid.