Temptation Quotes

982 Temptation quotes by 687 unique authors

We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance… — Matthew Henry
Let our hearts admit, “I am poor and weak. Satan is too subtle, too cunning, too powerful; he watches constantly for advantages over my soul.… — John Owen
Little sins carry with them but little temptations to sin, and then a man shews most viciousness and unkindness, when he sins on a little… — Thomas Brooks
The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low. — Thomas Brooks
Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle — Charles Spurgeon
Suppose that by revenge you might destroy one enemy; yet, by exercising the Christian's temper you might conquer three‌–‌your own lust, Satan's temptation, and your… — John Flavel
Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and… — Gaston Bachelard
The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this temptation,… — Arthur Koestler
The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems. — Jane Byrne
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the… — Seneca the Younger
Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield… — Karl Abraham
Every time you defeat a temptation, you become more like Jesus! — Rick Warren
The next sentence is one of the most important spiritual truths you will ever learn: God develops the fruit of the Spirit in your life… — Rick Warren
Integrity is built by defeating the temptation to be dishonest; humility grows when we refuse to be prideful; and endurance develops every time you reject… — Rick Warren
It’s the great temptation for small groups of people to slide into a state where they’re not quite telling each other the truth and they’re… — Bill Hybels
The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does poverty. — Margaret Thatcher
When dealing with a difficult person, all that matters from a spiritual standpoint is how you react and treat the person. It's not about getting… — Doreen Virtue
Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of our self-confidence. — Francois Fenelon
Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that tools of the… — Thomas Nagel
What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations. — Calvin Coolidge
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors,… — Tony Hoare
If you play with temptation do not expect God will deliver you — Mary Slessor
Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact by head or… — William H. Gass
We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are. — Thomas a Kempis
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once. — F. H. Bradley

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