Deliverance Quote by David Brainerd

God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they…

— Martin Luther

. . . It is God's plan that those who are to help others spiritually fall into the temptations of mind and body by…

— Vincent de Paul

“God had His hand in all the providences and dispensations that overtook His elect; so He had His hand in all the temptations that…

— John Bunyan

All the great temptations appear first in the region of the mind and can be fought and conquered there. We have been given the…

— Amy Carmichael

The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest…

— Thomas Merton

Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and their ways…

— John Owen

Mere mental assimilation of these truths cannot withstand temptation, however. The revelation of God is positively essential. The Spirit of God must reveal how…

— Watchman Nee

Temptation is God's magnifying glass; it shows us how much work he has left to do in our lives.

— Erwin W. Lutzer

“making peace and creating evil things,” preparing fit things for both; as also there is one Judge sending both into a fit place, as…

— The Church Fathers

“The hero, however, is always willing to see where his decisions may lead him. To sum up the hero's journey in the Tarot so…

— Rob Parnell

Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one.

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.

— Francois Fenelon