"Though Satan instills his poison, and fans the……" — John Calvin
"Though Satan instills his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements"
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237 Quotes by John Calvin
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More Allurements Quotes
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For who would live if life held no allurements?
— Lewis Howard Latimer
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I confess I am at a loss to discover what temptation the persons entrusted with the administration of the general…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great…
— Thomas Jefferson
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She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned.…
— Homer
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My desires seem especially to be after weanedness from the world, perfect deadness to it, and that I may be…
— David Brainerd
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Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.
— Nicolas Poussin
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In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many…
— Johann Arndt
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The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even…
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