Quotes about Temptation
Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)!
— Richard Baxter
As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99).
— Richard Baxter
O brethren! It is easier to chide at sin, than to overcome it.
— Richard Baxter
The devil hath his gunpowder plots, and mines, which may blow you up before you are aware. Not
— Richard Baxter
Even innocent Adam is liker to forget God in a paradise, than Joseph in a prison, or Job upon a dunghill(376)[.]
— Richard Baxter
The strongest Christian is unsafe among occasions to sin (519).
— Richard Baxter
The sweetest poison doth often bring the surest death (645).
— Richard Baxter
If you must needs have your pleasures, you should not have put yourselves into that calling that requireth you to make God and His service your pleasure, and restraineth you so much from fleshly pleasures.
— Richard Baxter
It is difficult to talk with God each day and continue to sin.
— Richard Blackaby
Only hour by hour gratitude is strong enough to overcome all temptations to resentment.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Our temptation now and always is not to trust in God but to trust in our faith tradition of trusting in God.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Without the mediation of Christ, we will be tempted to overplay the distance and the distinction between God and humanity.
— Fr. Richard Rohr