Quotes about Temptation
Snakes and monkeys are subjected to the demon more than other animals. Satan lives in them and possesses them. He uses them to deceive men and to injure them.
— Martin Luther
Satan tried to put Jesus Christ on the way to becoming King of the world and Savior of men in a way other than that predetermined by God.
— Oswald Chambers
A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes a man to make a devil.
— Henry Ward Beecher
An exhausted man easily falls prey to the adversary.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.
— John Donne
Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds' that blinded the eyes of Tobit.
— St. Anthony of Padua
Lack of money is the root of of all evil.
— George Bernard Shaw
Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.
— Mark Twain
We must guard against allowing anger to drag us into sin.
— Joyce Meyer
Our murmuring is the devil's music.
— Thomas Watson