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Quotes About Temptation

Some people... some people like cupcakes Exclusively, while myself, I say, There is naught nor ought there be nothing So exalted on the face of god's grey Earth as that prince of foods... the muffin!
~ Frank Zappa
Scripture doesn't promise that God will remove temptation, only that you'll be given strength to withstand it.
~ Garrison Keillor
God keepe me from foure houses, an Vsurers, a Taverne, a Spittle, and a Prison.
~ George Herbert
The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.
~ John Piper
You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children , you must not do it anymore. A scheme is not a vision and you never have been tempted by a demon or a god .
~ Leonard Cohen
God created Adam lord of all living creatures, but Eve spoiled it all.
~ Martin Luther
God defend me from myself.
~ Michel de Montaigne
no one ever really leaves Hollywood. No one really leaves unless they are called away by God. Even then, the impulse would be to come back again and make a movie about the experience.
~ Shirley MacLaine
Too many Christians live their lives like slaves - to the devil - because they believe his lies more than they trust God.
~ Joyce Meyer
I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'
~ Philip Seymour Hoffman
Staying with him. Letting him touch you, hold you, GOD. It's eating me alive. You may be keeping Sawyer from hating me but you're only making me hate him
~ Abbi Glines
The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan.
~ Arthur Koestler
A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian.
~ Augustus Hare
Sometimes the devil tempts me to believe in God.
~ Bill Vaughan
When we would think of God, how many things we find which turn us away from Him, and tempt us to think otherwise. All this is evil, yet it is innate.
~ Blaise Pascal
Dancing in the dark. Does fortune wait or just the black hand of fate, It'll take your God filled soul. Fill it with devils.
~ Bruce Springsteen
I called out to God, but the devil keeps answering.
~ Cee Lo Green
I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals.
~ Charles Bukowski
If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Like God's own chocolate, I'd lick her shadow off a hot sidewalk
~ Christopher Moore
You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Be quiet, or I swear to God I'll take you right here
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
With the attraction for lust and lucre working the other way, how many long for the realisation of God?
~ Swami Vivekananda
Because we don't see the evil destroyed now and thus experience the suffering that evil inevitably inflicts, we are tempted to doubt God's existence and goodness.
~ William A. Dembski