temptation quotes

Satan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God.

‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

By that sin fell the angels.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

I like to talk to myself ahead of time so when temptation comes, I’ve already made up my mind that I have the victory.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Temptation is a woman’s weapon and man’s excuse.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

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

The devil’s voice is sweet to hear.

It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

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

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

I can resist everything except temptation.