Quotes About Temptation

Simon, Simon, look out! Satan has asked to sift you like wheat. But I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. Luke 22:31–32

Lord, I have too long given the devil a foothold. (Eph. 4:27) Please help me to stop offering him so many opportunities to bring defeat into my life. Your plan for me is victory.

If we have received Christ as our Savior, Satan is forced to work from the outside rather than the inside. Thus, he manipulates outside influences to affect the inside decision-makers of the heart and mind.

First, be aware of this: scoffers will come in the last days to scoff, following their own lusts. 2 Peter 3:3

Here's a rule of thumb for the thought life that will be a catalyst for victory in all parts of life: starve the flesh and feed the spirit.

By demanding that we seek his glory alone, God is calling us to overcome the natural temptation to seek our own.

Satan will try to stir up what our faithful Refiner wants to skim off.

We can remain surrendered to the cause of Christ, sacrificial and sanctified, gospel driven to the bone, and our fruitfulness can still suffer loss. All the devil has to do is lure us away from abiding in Christ.

We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.

Personally, I prefer the dark side.

When you have a dark side, nothing is ever as good as it seems.

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

I know there are some good sides of social media but I am scared of getting addicted to the mobile screen.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

I was logging 15-hour days, sampling food every minute. I had access to these amazing dishes, and it was easy to lose sight of how quickly the bites added up.

I try not to diet because it never really works for me, if I tell myself I can't eat something then I tend to want to eat everything in sight.

One night I was driving and so infatuated with dipping French fries into my milk shake that I drove right through a stop sign. The cop who pulled me over had no mercy.

When you get that signing bonus, don't start thinking about all the things you can do with $1 million.

If you ask me to get a six-pack in the interim between signing a film, I will not do it. I enjoy food and will be happy to feed myself a pizza or two and gorge on cakes. But, I have good control over my body.

I didn't want to start aiming for fame. It would be silly to not have entertained offers.

It's a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.

What grabs our mental spotlight is illicit sex, violent death, and Walter Mittyish leaps of status. Now

How many of us have become drunks and drug addicts, developed tumors and neuroses, succumbed to painkillers, gossip, and compulsive cell-phone use, simply because we don't do that thing that our hearts, our inner genius, is calling us to?

The children who were able to sit for three minutes with a marshmallow on the table in front of them without eating it were rewarded with two marshmallows when the experimenter returned. But that's as crazy as inbox-watching. Krishna said we have the right to our labor, but not to the fruits of our labor. He meant that the piano is its own reward, as is the canvas, the barre, and the movieola. Fuck the marshmallows.