TEMPTATION QUOTES IV

quotations about temptation

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

ALEXANDER POPE
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Moral Essays


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Tags: Alexander Pope


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

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Maxims for Revolutionists

Tags: George Bernard Shaw


Temptations should end in victory.

J. NEWTON

attributed, Day's Collacon


Satan tempts the ambitious man with a crown, the sanguine man with beauty, the covetous man with a wedge of gold; he provides savory meat, such as the sinner loves.

T. WATSON

attributed, Day's Collacon


Temptations are an heavy burden; too heavy for any to bear, if God did not strengthen them. Tempted souls wrestle not with flesh and blood, but with Principalities and Powers; and therefore they need greater strength than their own.

WILLIAM NOTCUTT

A Treatise of Temptations


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

LAURENCE J. PETER

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times


The temptation is not here, where you are reading about it or praying about it: it is down in your shop, among bales and boxes, ten-penny nails, and sandpaper.

EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN

Living Words

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He that tempted Christ will not be expected to spare men.

ST. BERNARD

attributed, Day's Collacon


Temptation would be a lot easier to avoid if we didn't meet it in such gay company.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


Temptations lead you to hide from the Lord and you go off with your fault, with your sin, with your corruption, far from the Lord.

POPE FRANCIS

Mass at Santa Marta, February 10, 2017


The harder a temptation is to resist, the more you think about it and vacillate. That uncertainty is part of the process of growing.

RAP MONSTER

"BTS Talks Meaning of 'WINGS' And What They Hope To Achieve With Their 2nd Album", Soompi, October 10, 2016


'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude


Oh the remembrance of my great sins, of my great temptations, and of my great fear of perishing forever! They bring afresh into my mind the remembrance of my great help, my great supports from Heaven, and the great grace that God extended to such a wretch as I.

JOHN BUNYAN

preface, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

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The temptations are everywhere -- on the Internet, in the family medicine cabinet, and on the street.

HATTIE BERNSTEIN

"What are your kids hiding in their rooms?", Boston Globe, February 24, 2017


Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted,
I sometimes wonder if we shall not find
That not by deeds, but by what we've resisted,
Our places are assigned.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"As By Fire"

Tags: Ella Wheeler Wilcox


We think if we can only take the temptation away from men, men will be virtuous. We are mistaken. Men are made virtuous by confronting temptation.

LYMAN ABBOTT

The Theology of an Evolutionist

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The mother who tries to keep her child away from all temptation simply prepares the boy for a terrible fall when he gets old enough to leave the home. It is not by taking away the bonds, it is by giving strength to the man that he may break the bonds, that he is redeemed. Every man is like a Samson bound by his enemies, and he must acquire the strength within himself to break them.

LYMAN ABBOTT

The Theology of an Evolutionist

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The saints all passed through many temptations and trials to profit by them, while those who could not resist became reprobate and fell away.

THOMAS A KEMPIS

The Imitation of Christ

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The temptations are endless, and willpower can only take us so far.

OLAYINKA

"The Real Reasons You Should Stop Procrastinating", Information Nigeria, May 30, 2017


Temptation always gets hotter the closer we get to it. It would have been hard for Eve to pick the forbidden fruit if she stayed clear of it, say a hundred yards away.

RAYMOND MAHER

"Don't sit near the fire if your head is made of butter", The Battlefords News-Optimist, March 16, 2017