Quotes about Temptation

it seemed to him as if he were beholding in a magic panorama a future where he himself was sliding into that pleasureless yielding to the small solicitations of circumstance, which is a commoner history of perdition than any single momentous bargain.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

The devil tempts us not; 'tis we who tempt him, beckoning his skill with opportunity.

It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.

The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Let no one flatter himself of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

Remove prostitutes from human affairs, and you will destroy everything with lust.