Temptation Quotes
Temptation Quote of the day
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.
Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials.
No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.
They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil.
If God has called you, the more they block your way, the more that trouble and temptation, the more God's love is provoked. Each attempt to stop you asks for more evidence from God.
Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair.
When you're not happy, you need to be strong to change, resisting the temptation of turning back. The weak goes nowhere
The opposite of love? Vice. Temptation. The negative influences that we have. The bad energy that comes around us and makes us do certain things. To me, it's always been a war between the two.
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
A standing army is like a standing member. It's an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure.
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing...is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for.
We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.
Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.
There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.
Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.
Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction
Today, the greatest challenge facing American evangelicals is not persecution from the world, but seduction by the world.
Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do.
Temptation and testing (or a trial) are two sides of the same coin. Satan uses an occasion or a person to tempt us to fall; God uses the same to try us and make us stronger.
Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations!
Suppose that by revenge you might destroy one enemy; yet, by exercising the Christian's temper you might conquer three–your own lust, Satan's temptation, and your enemy's heart.
The dangerous temptation of wildlife films is that they can lull us into thinking we can get by without the original models -- that we might not need animals in the flesh.
Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away paradise. Therefore in all temptations consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.
For every great temptation there will be many small ones. Wolves and bears are more dangerous than flies, but we are bothered most by flies.
This is the great work of a man: always to take the blame for his own sins before God, and toexpect temptation to his last breath.
If Christ justifies you, He will sanctify you! He will not save you and leave you in your sins.
These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.
It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must resist this temptation.
Your temptations are from the devil and from Hell; but your sufferings and afflictions are from God and Heaven.
I have found that people who can successfully resist temptation invariably lead depressingly stunted lives.
As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm; as the wrestler is tried in the ring, the soldier in the battle, and the hero in adversity: so is the Christian tried in temptation.
