Quotes about Temptation
Do we eagerly long for the coming of Christ? Or do we want him to wait while our love affair with the world runs its course? That is the question that tests the authenticity of faith.
— John Piper
Lust hath these three companions: the first, blindness of understanding; the second, hardness of heart; the third, want of grace.
— St. Basil
The devil's one object is so to depress God's people that he can go to the man of the world and say: There are God's people. Do you want to be like that?
— Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The devil wants to convince you that dying is the worst thing. It is very much easier to do what god made you for than not.
— Jackie Pullinger
History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
— Oscar Wilde
Equations are the devil's sentences.
— Stephen Colbert
I'm the frosting on America's cake, and tonight I'm willing to let you lick the bowl.
— Stephen Colbert
Run for the hills. The Bible commands us to "flee immorality" (1 Corinthians 6:18). Only a fool says, "I can handle temptation without sinning." The wise man says, "I'm not going anywhere near it.
— Stephen Kendrick
Run for the hills. The Bible commands us to "flee immorality" (1 Corinthians 6:18). Only a fool says, "I can handle temptation without sinning." The wise man says, "I'm not going anywhere near it.
— Stephen Kendrick
The inner life must overcome the flesh or the flesh will overcome and destroy the inner life.
— AW Tozer
Pride is the master sin of the devil.
— Edwin Hubbell Chapin