Quotes About Temptation

The Devil takes no holiday; he never rests. If beaten, he rises again. If he cannot enter in front, he steals in the rear. If he cannot enter at the rear, he breaks through the roof or enters by tunneling under the threshold. He labors until he is in. He uses great cunning and many a plan. When one miscarries, he has another at hand and continues in his attempts until he wins. MARTIN LUTHER

Paul wrote, "The love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith" (1 Tim. 6:10). John warned, "Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him" (1 John 2:15), and again, "Little children, keep yourselves from idols" (1 John 5:21).

To ignore Satan and his strategies is to commit spiritual suicide.

But to become preoccupied with Satan and his kingdom is equally dangerous.

Where there's chocolate, there's hope.

I spent the next couple of hours either walking around with a gelato in my hand or on my knees in church asking to be forgiven for the sin of gluttony.

The largest problem is that we are so focused on what we deem the bigger temptations, that we are doing nothing at all about our response to the smaller ones. And it is these smaller temptations that eventually become devastating.

It freaks me out a little bit. In my humanness, if I had been challenged in such a manner, with Satan saying, "If you believe your God is strong enough to save you, why don't you just jump," I would have felt an obligation to prove God accurate. But that is not what Christ did. Because Christ did not lean on a few choice Scriptures that supported His life perception.

We think, "Hey. The Bible is holy, so quoting it must make my choices correct." But someone else tried that tactic before. Yeah. His name was Satan.

But the comfortable life is a slippery slope toward the consumer life.

C. S. Lewis wrote of temptation, "No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.

at the heart of permaculture lay a gorgeously empathetic view of human nature: people aren't inherently wasteful and greedy, but fall into those patterns because of the temptations of the modern world.

The comfortable life is a slippery slope toward the consumer life.

God damn it! Where's my wine?

I deal with temptation by yielding to it

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil

I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed — in a modified way — 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance.

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.

Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

We all have thoughts that would shame the devil.

Oh, loneliness and cheeseburgers are a dangerous mix.