Quotes about Temptation

Now all is dashed wrong; by the fool's craving to hear evil of self, that haunts some people like a demon!

She may be beautiful, but she's certainly no angel.

Tis true I know what evil I shall do but passion overpowers the better council.

In a certain sense, you do write to seduce the world, but when it happens, you begin to feel like a whore. The disparity between your life and your work turns out to be as great as ever. And the people seduced by your work are usually seduced by all the wrong reasons.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

I think that there are deceptive forces out there that will try to lead us away from God, and we really do need to be careful.

The devil says I'm out, but the Lord says I'm safe.

Satan has an agenda.

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we don't want to do it.

The long painful history of the Church is the history of people ever and again tempted to choose power over love, control over the cross, being a leader over being led.