Quotes About Temptation

All children... feel a demonic sympathy with those things that cause disorder in the grown-up world.

What is got over the Devil's back (that's by knavery), is spent under the belly (that's by lechery).

Her fingers touched me! She smells all amber.

Never were finer snares for womens' honesties Than are devis'd in these days ; no spider's web's Made of a daintier thread, than are now practis'd To catch love's flesh-fly by the silver wing

Oh,Wert not gold and women, there would be no damnation

He would sell his soul if he knew what merchant would lay out money upon't; and some of 'em have need of one.

Like Dead Sea fruits, that tempt the eye,But turn to ashes on the lips.

The devil...the prowde spirite...cannot endure to be mocked.

Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority, perfect equality affords no temptation.

The Pauline idea of inclusive election—the idea that the elect are chosen instruments through whom God's mercy will eventually reach those who have stumbled—sets Paul squarely against a temptation as old as religion itself: the temptation to distinguish between the favored few—to which, of course, we belong—and everyone else.

The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains.

Until sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.

We pray, 'lead us not into temptation'. Do we then lead ourselves into temptation?

The more bitterness we taste in sin, the more sweetness we shall taste in Christ.

Satan loves to fish in the troubled waters of a discontented heart.

God can turn stones into bread, and a sinner can turn bread into stones; the bread of life into the stone of stumbling.

There are no sins God's people are more subject to than unbelief and impatience.

Christians must not be slothful. Idleness is the devil's bath; a slothful person becomes a prey to every temptation. Grace, while it cures the heart, does not make the hand lame. He who is called of God, as he works for heaven, so he works in his trade." - Thomas Watson

It is in fashion nowadays to go to hell.

Lusts within are worse than lions without.

So dear is sin to a man that he will rather part with a child than with a lust

Fulgens hoc aurum praestringit oculos [This gold with its glitter blinds the eyes]. Varius.

An idle person is the devil's tennis ball, which he bandies up and down with temptation until at last the ball goes out of play.

Another sign of our effectual calling is diligence in our ordinary calling. Some boast of their high calling, but they lie idly at anchor. Religion does not seal warrants to idleness. Christians must not be slothful. Idleness is the devil's bath; a slothful person becomes a prey to every temptation. Grace, while it cures the heart, does not make the hand lame. He who is called of God, as he works for heaven, so he works in his trade.