Temptation Quotes

The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.

One gives way to the temptation, only to rise from it again, afterwards, with a great eagerness to r...

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

I don't smile. Why tempt her to friendship?

Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

...morality is a check upon the strongest temptations.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

There are several good protections against temptation but the surest is cowardice.

Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, o...

Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have rest...

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life - never to resist an adequate temptation.

Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a ...

Watch out, brother,' his professor had told him more than once, 'you have talent; it would be a sin ...

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it and your soul grows sick with ...

I can resist everything except temptation.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with ...

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by th...

What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?

Here’s a hand to the boy who has courageTo do what he knows to be right;When he falls in the way of ...

Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight. At that time, James Nightshade of...

Dad, will they ever come back?""No. And yes." Dad tucked away his harmonica. "No not them. But yes, ...

The strongest Christian is unsafe among occasions to sin (519).

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.

To cast in my lot with Jekyll, was to die to those appetites which I had long secretly indulged and ...

Money! Money's the curse of man, none greater.That's what wrecks cities, banishes men from homes,Tem...

No such thing as a temptation. A temptation is a desire, a lust like any other - but one that we reg...

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively ...

The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer...

Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That remin...

There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage-in controlling something, period.

You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upo...

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are poss...

What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gow...

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.

There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words...

Well, Mr Markham, you that maintain that a boy should not be shielded from evil, but sent out to bat...

It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire l...

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come ...

The temptationTo take the precious things we have apartTo see how they workMust be resisted for they...

If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.It is in the ...

When Jesus was tempted, He didn’t debate the devil. He quoted Scripture: “It is written . . . It is ...

We can’t flee from temptation in our own strength—but God will give us the strength we need, if we’l...

It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts.

Everyone has temptations but some folks entertain them . . .Get your eyes off the temptation and ont...

I know that many of the things I have said from the Scriptures have offended, and I have sometimes b...

Every stage of life has its own temptations and dangers, and Satan will do all he can to exploit the...

Be very sure that you do not deliberately place yourself in a position to be tempted.

Be sure that Satan will tempt you at your weak point, not the strong.

Many Christians give in to various temptations through peer pressure and find themselves surrenderin...

Don’t savor temptations; don’t dwell on them or toy with them or replay them over and over in your m...

All of us are not subjected to the same weaknesses and temptations.To one, alcohol may be the tempta...

Temptation is not a sin. It is the yielding that is sin. All temptation is from the devil.

Only a strong faith—a faith based on God’s Word—will protect us from temptation and doubt.

The Bible is intensely practical, and one of the reasons God gave it to us is so we’ll be better pre...

Temptation: Recognize it for what it is, and then reject it—immediately and without compromise.

God promises no easy life or days without troubles, trials, difficulties, and temptations. He never ...

If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.It is in the ...

Temptation is not a sin. It is the yielding that is sin. All temptation is from the devil.

Only a strong faith—a faith based on God’s Word—will protect us from temptation and doubt.

When Jesus was tempted, He didn’t debate the devil. He quoted Scripture: “It is written . . . It is ...

We can’t flee from temptation in our own strength—but God will give us the strength we need, if we’l...

It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts.

Everyone has temptations but some folks entertain them . . .Get your eyes off the temptation and ont...

I know that many of the things I have said from the Scriptures have offended, and I have sometimes b...

Every stage of life has its own temptations and dangers, and Satan will do all he can to exploit the...

Be very sure that you do not deliberately place yourself in a position to be tempted.

Be sure that Satan will tempt you at your weak point, not the strong.

Many Christians give in to various temptations through peer pressure and find themselves surrenderin...

Don’t savor temptations; don’t dwell on them or toy with them or replay them over and over in your m...

All of us are not subjected to the same weaknesses and temptations.To one, alcohol may be the tempta...

The Bible is intensely practical, and one of the reasons God gave it to us is so we’ll be better pre...

Temptation: Recognize it for what it is, and then reject it—immediately and without compromise.

God promises no easy life or days without troubles, trials, difficulties, and temptations. He never ...

If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.It is in the ...

When Jesus was tempted, He didn’t debate the devil. He quoted Scripture: “It is written . . . It is ...

We can’t flee from temptation in our own strength—but God will give us the strength we need, if we’l...

It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts.

Everyone has temptations but some folks entertain them . . .Get your eyes off the temptation and ont...

I know that many of the things I have said from the Scriptures have offended, and I have sometimes b...

Every stage of life has its own temptations and dangers, and Satan will do all he can to exploit the...

Be very sure that you do not deliberately place yourself in a position to be tempted.

Be sure that Satan will tempt you at your weak point, not the strong.

Many Christians give in to various temptations through peer pressure and find themselves surrenderin...

Don’t savor temptations; don’t dwell on them or toy with them or replay them over and over in your m...

All of us are not subjected to the same weaknesses and temptations.To one, alcohol may be the tempta...

Temptation is not a sin. It is the yielding that is sin. All temptation is from the devil.

Only a strong faith—a faith based on God’s Word—will protect us from temptation and doubt.

The Bible is intensely practical, and one of the reasons God gave it to us is so we’ll be better pre...

Temptation: Recognize it for what it is, and then reject it—immediately and without compromise.

God promises no easy life or days without troubles, trials, difficulties, and temptations. He never ...

If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.It is in the ...

When Jesus was tempted, He didn’t debate the devil. He quoted Scripture: “It is written . . . It is ...

We can’t flee from temptation in our own strength—but God will give us the strength we need, if we’l...

It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts.

Everyone has temptations but some folks entertain them . . .Get your eyes off the temptation and ont...

I know that many of the things I have said from the Scriptures have offended, and I have sometimes b...

Every stage of life has its own temptations and dangers, and Satan will do all he can to exploit the...