Quotes About Temptation

Because," said Scrooge, "a little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

Life Lessons 4:4, 7, 10 — "It is written .… It is written .… it is written .… " Jesus responded to each of Satan's three temptations by appealing to the unchanging Word of God: "It is written!" If we want to successfully overcome temptation, we must know what the Word says.

The landmines in his arsenal include such sins as pride, jealousy and envy, disappointment, unforgiveness, compromise, sexual temptation, fear, and laziness—which God also calls slothfulness. Each one is designed by Satan to discourage you and keep you from reaching your full potential. That happened in Saul's life. He never fully became the person God created him to be because he allowed pride to enter his heart. If we are not discerning and wise, the same will be true of us.

Cuando Job estaba sumido en el desastre su mujer se burló de él, diciendo: «¿Aún retienes tu integridad? Maldice a Dios, y muérete» (Job 2.9). Es evidente que Satanás estaba obrando para tratar de distorsionar la perspectiva que Job tenía de Dios.

When you feel the lure of sin, conquer it by seeking the Savior. It won't be easy, and sometimes deliverance will take time. But always seek to honor Him and He will certainly teach you how to overcome.

We cannot wait until after the landmine explodes to say no to sin. God

Therefore, when you do stumble, always remember you have an Advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ—who hears your prayers for forgiveness and cares when you are hurting. God may discipline you when you yield to temptation, but He will never withhold His love from you. You are His child. This truth never changes. And because He is righteous, loving, and steadfast, He will certainly never fail you.

Satan's primary goal is to prevent us from having an intimate relationship with the Lord. He

Satan is the prince of this world, and he definitely influences what is broadcast each day.

Life Lessons 4:1 — Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. The Holy Spirit led Jesus to a barren place where the devil waited to tempt Him. We should never doubt God's leading just because we run into temptation. That is often God's way of testing us.

30:20 — This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, "I have done no wickedness." It's become a mantra in our society: "But I'm really a good person!" Unbelievers and believers alike often make this claim after they do what God's Word calls sin. But sin requires repentance, not self-justification or denial.

They had the lure of the Wal-Mart volume," [Jim] Wier said. "Once you get hooked on the volume, it's like getting hooked on cocaine. You've created a monster for yourself.

Some persons who are going to perdition: Whiskey-men, saloon-keepers, whoremongers, prostitutes, seducers of innocent virtue, wilful liars, theatre-goers, horse-racers, (and their kind,) tricksters in politics and business, and bad people of all grade are on the road to perdition.

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

...a ball of Ice Cream gooed with Chocolate and enveloped with Salted Nuts...

The hour of idleness is the hour of temptation.

So runs the genealogy of many another sin: idleness is usually the grandfather of the crime, whatever the father might be.

I have a collar of pearls... On the ivory breast of a queen they have rested... I have topazes, yellow as are the eyes of tigers, and topazes that are pink as the eyes of a wood-pigeon, and green topazes that are as the eyes of cats. I have opals that burn always, with a flame that is cold as ice, opals that make sad men's minds, and are afraid of the shadows.

One simply does not drive home from McDonald's without eating any fries.

Her persuasive kisses were hard, deep, and intoxicating.

When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.

When it comes to hiding porn, every man is a CIA agent.