Delight Quote by John Owen

When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“There has never been any forbidden fruit. Only temptation is divine. To feel the need to vary the object of this temptation, to replace…

— André Breton

God uses the opposite situation of each fruit to allow us a choice. You can't claim to be good if you have never been…

— Rick Warren

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.

— Horace Mann

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

— Horace Mann

Temptation is not to be feared, but controlled.

— Deborah Brodie

But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them.

— Bruce Feiler

Temptation is not a sin; it is a call to battle.

— Erwin W. Lutzer

Except a man fear the Lord, he is unable to renounce sin.

— Ambrose

A discerning man, when he eats grapes, takes only the ripe ones and leaves the sour. Thus also the discerning mind carefully marks the…

— John Climacus

Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.

— Bodhidharma

“Do not grieve over temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us first to…

— Anonymous