Quotes About Temptation

The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!

Knowledge is power, power corrupts. Study hard, be evil.

As long as you're still walking with the demons of hell! You'll never have the time to slow down to see the angels of heaven behind you.

The quest to sin always knocks at the door of the heart, but behold! You have the right and will to open your door or never to mind the knocks, no matter how intense it is!

If he touches me, I will succumb. I know the power he wields over me and my traitorous body. I know.

In the midst of wanting to be powerful, I found a weakness.

Power is like a woman you want to stay in bed with forever.

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation.

When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devils shouts for joy.

God cannot hear the prayers on our lips often because the desires of our heart after the world cry out to Him much more strongly and loudly than the our desires for Him.

There is nothing the devil fears so much, or so much tries to hinder, as prayer.

God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.

Satan does not care how many people read about prayer if only he can keep them from praying.

If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer.

God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they drive us to despair.

Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, the latter has the largest congregation.

Satan can't keep God from answering our prayers, but he will keep us from asking.

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.

There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.

Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.

if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.

Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and their ways nor pity and prayer for their deliverance.