Quotes about Temptation

Boys do not fully know what is good and what is evil; they do wrong things at first almost innocently. Novelty hides vice from them; there is no one to warn them or give them rules; and they become slaves of sin, while they are learning what sin is.

Give me women, wine and snuff Until I cry out hold, enough You may do so san objection Till the day of resurrection; For bless my beard then aye shall be My beloved Trinity.

That the Pape is not the successour of Petir, but whare he said, "Go behynd me, Sathan."

Christ is the Divine answer to the Devil's overthrow of our first parents.

Charnock said, there is "not a moment of a man's life wherein our hereditary corruption doth not belch its froth.

But God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it" (1Co 10:13).

How much are the Lord's people losing today because of their acceptance of the world's favors! Unto how few can the Lord.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

She has mischievious moments when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island...

COKANE [looking compassionately at him] Ah, my dear fellow, the love of money is the root of all evil. LICKCHEESE. Yes, sir; and we'd all like to have the tree growing in our garden.

A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow.