Quotes about Temptation

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

The devil is who torments good folks in the night. He whispers doubt in your ear. He stirs up anger. He picks at any little mistake you've made, or thinks you've made, and blows it up big. That's Satan, stirring and stirring trouble, like a pot he's trying to boil over, hoping he can spill sin through your soul and slop it all over the people around you.

A penny from God will take you further than a dollar from the devil.

A penny from God will take you further than a dollar from the devil.

Behind every temptation is a divine reward in resisting it; behind every divine opportunity is a reward in taking advantage of it.

One of satan's most successful devices is to preoccupy us with "good" things to distract us from the "right" things.

Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it. A temptation resisted may become more, not less, fierce.

There are temptations to idolatry at every level, and the greater the good the greater the temptation.

People who have been starved of water for a long time will drink anything, even if it is polluted.

Someone who truly understands who he or she is in Christ is further along the road to genuine holiness than someone who, in confusion, anxiously imagines that the new life is the result, rather than the starting-point, of the daily battle with temptation.

The voice of Satan is often hard to recognise precisely because it appears so frequently as the voice of common sense, of prudence, of reason.

But if there had been an earlier "victory," when did it take place? Matthew, Mark, and Luke all supply the answer: at the beginning of Jesus's public career, during his forty-day fast in the desert, when the satan tried to distract him, to persuade him to grasp the right goal by the wrong means, and so to bring him over to his side (Matt. 4:1—11; Mark 1:12—13; Luke 4:1—13).