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Saturday, January 06, 2024

Temptation Quotes

Quotes About Temptation 

  • Ability to resist temptation is directly proportionate to your submission to God. - Ed Cole
  • All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot. - Henry Ward Beecher
  • All the great temptations appear first in the region of the mind and can be fought and conquered there. We have been given the power to close the door of the mind. We can lose this power through disuse or increase it by use, by the daily discipline of the inner man in things which seem small and by reliance upon the word of the Spirit of truth. It is God that worketh in you, both to will and to do of His good pleasure. It is as though He said, 'Learn to live in your will, not in your feelings.' - Amy Carmichael
  • As the most dangerous winds may enter at little openings, so the devil never enters more dangerously than by little unobserved incidents, which seem to be nothing, yet insensibly open the heart to great temptations. - John Wesley
  • Christ, because He was the only Man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only Man who knows to the full what temptation means. - C.S. Lewis
  • Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory. - Frederick W. Faber
  • Every time you defeat a temptation, you become more like Jesus! - Rick Warren
  • God chooses that men should be tried, but let a man beware of tempting his neighbor. God knows how and how much, and where and when. Man is his brother's keeper, and must keep him according to his knowledge. - George Macdonald
  • If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome. - William Penn
  • Jesus was not tempted to see if He would fall. He was tempted to show that He could not fall. - J. Vernon McGee
  • Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness. - Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in. - Billy Sunday
  • Temptation may even be a blessing to a man when it reveals to him his weakness and drives him to the almighty Savior. Do not be surprised, then, dear child of God, if you are tempted at every step of your earthly journey, and almost beyond endurance; but you will not be tempted beyond what you are able to bear, and with every temptation there will be a way of escape. - F.B. Meyer
  • Temptations are never so dangerous as when they come to us in a religious garb. - Dwight L. Moody
  • Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work, become easier and simpler where they are made not in the fear of men, but only in the sight of God. He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations. - Assorted Authors
  • The life of Balance is difficult. It lies on the verge of continual temptation, its perpetual adjustments become fatiguing, its measured virtue is monotonous and uninspiring. - Henry Drummond
  • The riches of His free grace cause me daily to triumph over all the temptations of the wicked one, who is very vigilant, and seeks all occasions to disturb me. - George Whitefield
  • Unwillingness to accept God's "way of escape" from temptation frightens me what a rebel yet resides within. - Jim Elliot
  • We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. --RALPH WALDO EMERSON





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James 1:14 (NLT) Temptation comes from our own desires, which entice us and drag us away.
Luke 22:40 (NLT) There he told them, “Pray that you will not give in to temptation.”
Matthew 6:13 (NLT) And don’t let us yield to temptation, but rescue us from the evil one.
1 Corinthians 10:13 The temptations in your life are no different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, he will show you a way out so that you can endure.
1 Timothy 6:9 - But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
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