Quotes about Temptation
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
— Saint Jerome
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
— Saint Jerome
find it most true, that the greatest temptation out of hell is to live without temptations; if my waters should stand, they would rot. Faith is the better of the free air, and of the sharp winter storm in its face. Grace withereth without adversity. The devil is but God's master fencer, to teach us to handle our weapons.
— Samuel Rutherford
You will be a happier person if you don't do what you want to do, most of the time.
— Dennis Prager
We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.
— Martin Luther
Every time you defeat a temptation, you become more like Jesus!
— Rick Warren
now embrace the divine child within me. May it burst forth now to bless the world. May I not be tempted to doubt the light that lights the entire world. Illumine the earth and save the world. Thank You, Lord.
— Marianne Williamson
Today I will not be tempted to wander the byroads of pain, but rather I will set my feet upon the path of joy and peace. May the spirit of God protect my mind from any forces of fear that would divert my thinking.
— Marianne Williamson
When sins become civil rights, there is a temptation for Christians to keep our mouths shut and turn what is supposed to be a public faith into a private faith, but we are commanded to not be ashamed of the gospel.
— Mark Driscoll
Singles, fornicating is an internship for adultery.
— Mark Driscoll
We can kill our sin, or sin will kill our marriages. Those are the only options.
— Mark Driscoll
Adultery doesn't come until the seventh commandment, and you won't even get to the seventh commandment if you don't violate the first two commandments. Sex is god, and I worship by having sexual sin.
— Mark Driscoll