Tempter Quotes
16 quotes by 15 authors
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You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Stop entertaining those vain fears. Remember it is not feeling which constitutes guilt but the consent to such feelings. Only the free will is capable…
— Pio of Pietrelcina
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The Tempter masters the lazy and irresolute man who dwells on the attractive side of things, ungoverned in his senses, and unrestrained in his food,…
— Gautama Buddha
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The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is the one calling…
— William Booth
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Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by…
— Robert South
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JOY in the LORD puts our mouths out of taste for the pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks.
— Matthew Henry
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My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.
— Francis Asbury
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Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome him, as the…
— Gautama Buddha
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Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.
— John Milton
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Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Everywhere and always, since its very inception, Christianity has turned the earth into a vale of tears; always it has made of life a weak,…
— Emma Goldman
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We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and…
— John D. Rockefeller
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The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?
— William Shakespeare
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There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming…
— Alfred de Musset
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How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in…
— Honore de Balzac
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Respect all strangers who were all Godsends; Respect your foes who taught you self-defense; Respect those evil men who you troubled; Respect the tempter who…
— Lorna Grace
Who Wrote These Tempter Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 16 Tempter Quotes as follows: