Quotes about Temptation

Finally, I learned that we shouldn't seek answers as much as we should seek God. We get overanxious. We try to microwave our own answers instead of trusting God's timing. But here's an important reminder: If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you. There comes a point after you have prayed through that you need to let go and let God. How? By resisting the temptation to manufacture your own answer to your own prayer.

We're too Christian to enjoy sin and too sinful to enjoy Christ. We've got just enough Jesus to be informed, but not enough to be transformed.

When you are tempted to compromise your integrity, remember than an opportunity isn't an opportunity if you have to compromise your integrity.

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

It is dull, Son of Adam, to drink without eating, " said the Queen presently. "What would you like best to eat?""Turkish Delight, please, your Majesty, " said Edmund.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost.

Woman is at once apple and serpent.

There must be several young women who would render the Christian life intensely difficult to him if only you could persuade him to marry one of them.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.… Thus is the Devil ever God's ape.

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.