Quotes about Temptation

There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door, so she went back to the table, half hoping that she might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of rules of shutting people on telescopes: this time she found a little bottle on it (which certainly was not there before, said Alice), and tied round the neck round the bottle was a paper label, with the words DRINK ME beautifully printed on it with large letters.

tied round the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words DRINK ME beautifully printed on it in large letters.

There are very real forces that whisper lying innuendos that assault your mind, your will, and your emotions in the hope of causing you to turn on yourself and then to turn on others.

Satan attempts to twist the meaning and therefore the application of God's Word in the hope that we will misuse his promises for self-preservation

I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

Afflictions are meant for our spiritual benefit; we are sometimes tempted that we may learn to pray the more.

To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity - there is the challenge.

The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.

It has been my observation that whatever a person hungers for, Satan will appear to offer in exchange for a spiritual compromise.

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?