Consent Quote by Thomas Merton

Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim - not towards what I understand as evil,…

— Oswald Chambers

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

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

Temptations are like tramps. Treat them kindly, and they will return bringing others with them. Temptations are never so dangerous as when they come…

— Dwight L. Moody

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

— Erwin W. Lutzer

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

— William Hazlitt

It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones.

— John William De Forest

I find it most true that the greatest temptation outside of hell is to live without temptations; if water stands, it rots; faith is…

— Samuel Rutherford

The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this…

— Arthur Koestler

Temptations are part of life, part of growing up. We grapple with them often - in some instances for our lifetime - before we…

— Joan D. Chittister

Every temptation is an offer to doubt God's love and wisdom.

— Rick Warren

“We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because he was the…

— C.S. Lewis