TEMPTATION QUOTES VI

quotations about temptation

Every time the enemy throws us off our guard, and we give way to temptation, he gains so much; he weakens us and strengthens himself; when we resist temptation, it strengthens the Saints and weakens the enemy.

BRIGHAM YOUNG

Journal of Discourses

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There's a lesson in every temptation.

FRANK HERBERT

God Emperor of Dune

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Soul's Castle fell at one blast of temptation,
But many a worm had pierced the foundation.

WILLIAM ALLINGHAM

"Blackberries"

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Get thee behind me, Satan.

BIBLE

Matthew 16:23

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The devil and temptations also afford us occasion to learn and understand the Scriptures, by experience and practice. Without these we should never understand them, however diligently we read and listened to them.

MARTIN LUTHER

"Of God's Word", Table Talk

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Temptation is woman's weapon and man's excuse.

H. L. MENCKEN

Mencken Chrestomathy

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Temptations are as thick as the leaves of the forest, and no one can be out of the reach of temptation unless he is dead. The great thing is to make people intelligent enough and strong enough, not to keep away from temptation, but to resist it.

ROBERT G. INGERSOLL

"How to Reform Mankind", Works

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

JOHN W. DE FOREST

Seacliff, or The Mystery of the Westervelts


Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

RITA MAE BROWN

attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing

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Some men flee from temptation, but others just crawl away from it hoping it will overtake them.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Love's Labour's Lost

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Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour.... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?

CHARLOTTE BRONTË

Jane Eyre

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The man who loves and seeks the excitement of temptation, shows that he is restrained from sin by fear, and not by principle--that while his life is on the side of virtue, his affections lean to vice.

JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND

Gold-foil, Hammered from Popular Proverbs

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When you flee temptation be sure you don't leave a forwarding address.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be driven out of the heart like the moneychangers from the temple. Maybe they can, if you patrol your weak points day and night, don't look, don't smell, don't dream.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

Written on the Body

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Bearing up against temptations and prevailing over them, is the very thing wherein the whole life of religion consists; 'Tis the trial which God puts upon us in this world, by which we are to make evidence of our love and obedience to Him, and of our fitness to be made members of His kingdom.

SAMUEL CLARKE

attributed, Works, Containing Sermons on Several Subjects, Volume 2


So you tell yourself you are pretty fine clay
To have tricked temptation and turned it away,
But wait, my friend, for a different day;
Wait till you want to want to!

EDMUND VANCE COOKE

Desire


The source and cause of all temptation is in the inward desire; that being purified or eliminated, outward objects and extraneous powers are utterly powerless to move the soul to sin or to temptation.

JAMES ALLEN

Above Life's Turmoil