Quotes about Temptation
Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.
— John Henry Newman
I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men.
— Paulo Coelho
Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.
— St. Augustine
Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.
— St. Augustine
The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed.
— Charles Spurgeon
Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.
— St. Augustine
There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.
— Alexander Hamilton
When God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.
— Cormac McCarthy
Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.
— GK Chesterton
I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.
— Mahatma Gandhi