Quotes About Temptation

Since the Bible is God's Word, we shouldn't be surprised if Satan tries to convince us otherwise.

Among young people . . . drinking is for getting drunk. And many go on to become alcoholics.

There are many new sinners today, but there aren't any new sins, just the old ones clothed in different rags.

Satan will thrash about in one last burst of evil, hoping to capture as many souls as possible before his inevitable end.

Do not seek solace in alcohol. Alcohol obscures good judgment and leaves you unable to think clearly or understand what God is trying to say to you.

Some [young people] are taking pills called "heaven or hell" drugs, because you're liable to experience either one.

As for the world system of evil, we are to be separated from it. This then is our problem: to associate with and love those who are involved in the world without being contaminated, influenced, or swayed by them. This distinction can be achieved only by a close walk with Christ, by constant prayer, and by seeking the Holy Spirit's leadership every hour of the day. We are in the world, but the world is not to be in us.

Many people today have discarded the Bible's clear teaching on sexual relations outside of marriage, simply because they are absorbed only in their own pleasures and desires.

The Bible] warns us about "the little foxes, that spoil the vines" [Song of Solomon 2:15 KJV]. This is a picture of the way "little" sins can destroy our fruitfulness for the Lord.

If Satan can't keep you away from Christ, he will at least try to make you doubt your salvation.

My wife has said that a bitter, sour Christian is one of Satan's greatest trophies—and she's right.

I do not understand what I do. . . . For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. —Romans 7:15, 19

Old age is Satan's last chance to blow us off course.

There is not a day that we do not have a chance to choose between the devil's clever promises and God's sure Word.

Have you fallen into the world's trap, following its self-indulgent goals and driven by its self-centered motives? It can happen without you even being aware of it. Make sure Christ is first in your life, and make it your goal to live according to His Word.

Many of us have no appetite for spiritual things because we are absorbed in the sinful pleasures of this world. We have been eating too many of the devil's delicacies.

The Antichrist . . . will be the embodiment of evil, and will have great power to deceive those who choose to follow him.

We have at our fingertips every pleasure that man is capable of enjoying, and man has abused every gift God ever gave him.

How do we get our values so mixed up? We look for shortcuts to happiness. Our lust for immediate pleasure prompts us to think of evil as good.

We need to know what the Bible teaches about right and wrong. Every day we are battered by messages—from the media, advertising, entertainment, celebrities, even our friends—with one underlying theme: "Live for yourself.

Worldliness doesn't fall like an avalanche upon a person and sweep him or her away. It is the steady drip, drip, drip of the water that wears away the stone. The world is exerting a steady pressure on us every day. Most of us would go down under it, if it weren't for the Holy Spirit who lives inside us, and holds us up, and keeps us.

Juanita Ooh that boy's a fine piece of work all right. He's a fine piece of ass though, too.

Any man who is attached to the senses and to the things of this world, is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes which represent his own passions.

It is always a temptation, which grows stronger the longer we live, to look back instead of forward, to bemoan the past, and thus deride the present and distrust the future.