Inspirational Quotes on Temptation

“Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.”

“Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.”

“Our great Pattern hath showed us what our deportment ought to be in all suggestions and temptations. When the devil showed Him "all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them," to tempt Him withal, He did not stand and look upon them, viewing their glory, and pondering their empire.... but instantly, without stay, He cries, "Get thee hence, Satan." Meet thy temptation in its entrance with thoughts of faith concerning Christ on the cross; this will make it sink before thee. Entertain no parley, no dispute with it, if thou wouldst not enter into it.”

“Sin gets its power by persuading me to believe that I will be happier if I follow it. The power of all temptation is the prospect that it will make me happier.”

“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.”

“Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.”

“My temptations have been my Masters in Divinity.”

“Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.”

“The devil visits idle men with his temptations. God visits industrious men with His favors.”

“Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.”

“We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God's all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might.”

“The essence of temptation is the invitation to live independently of God.”

“Many of us suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer.”

“Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away Paradise. Therefore in all temptations let us consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.”

“Every temptation is an opportunity to do good.”

“Every time Satan suggested a temptation, Jesus countered by quoting Scripture.”

“It is not a sin to be tempted.”

“Every time you defeat a temptation, you become more like Jesus!”

“Temptation always starts in your mind, not in circumstances.”

“As long as the Spirit dwells in my heart, He deadens me to sin, so that, if lawfully called through temptation, I may reckon upon God carrying me through. But when the Spirit leaves me, I am like dry gunpowder.”