Quotes About Temptation

People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.

Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.

Why what a fool was I to this drunken monster for a God. - Caliban

Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.

Watch for the devil. When there's a god, there's always a legion of devils.

The devil doesn't sit idly by while you seek God. If you're pursuing Christ, the enemy is pursuing you.

But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols-if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our lives.

The whole theory of what Satan is, it's Lucifer, the highest of the seraphim, the bearer of God's light, who at a certain point comes to believe he is what is being revealed to him.

The presence of the devil is on the first page of the Bible, and the Bible ends as well with the presence of the devil, with the victory of God over the devil.

Satan's smoke has made its way into the Temple of God through some crack

Satan does not tempt us just to make us do wrong things- he tempts us to make us lose what God has put into us through regeneration, namely, the possibility of being of value to God.

Let's just say you may regret that second piece of cake. Oh my God. Regret cake? Whatever was about to happen must be truly evil.

But if Satan speaks sometimes, God keep silent, always. We have to find the answers alone.

Relax, Jailbait," said Avery. "A drunken kiss is nothing compared to a drunken fall. God knows I've kissed plenty of guys drunk." "And yet, I remain unkissed tonight," mused Adrian.

Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons.

When you live with the Devil you learn there's a God very quickly.

Our fleshly nature tempts us to put ourselves above others or seek a position or place for ourselves instead of allowing others to have it.

God honors some with great suffering and grants them the grace of martyrdom, while other are not tempted beyond their strength. But in every case it is one cross.

What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the servants offer and had said to him instead, "let me not be like God. Let me be what I was made to be - let me be a woman'?

God Almighty, your ruined, and you didn't even eat the gingerbread.

A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.

God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.

Your mind is like, oh my God, I know this is wrong, but your body just gives in.

Nephi taught that by clinging to the word of God, as though it be a handrail, we would be able to avoid temptations and not lose our way in darkness. Thus, we would remain on the narrow path.