490 Quotes About Temptation

Jesus does not impose intolerable restrictions on his disciples, he does not forbid them to look at anything, but bids them look on him. If they do that he knows that their gaze will always be pure, even when they look upon a woman.

One gives way to the temptation, only to rise from it again, afterwards, with a great eagerness to reestablish one's dignity, as if it were a tombstone to place on the grave of one's shame, and a monument to hide and sign the memory of our weaknesses. Everybody's in the same case. Some folks haven't the courage to say certain things, that's all!THE STEP-DAUGHTER: All appear to have the courage to do them though.

The final aim of any temptation is to bring a person back into the kingdom of darkness.

Yes, the Enemy will rise up and challenge you with false accusations if you start working, and he will do it at the same time when you rise up to work. However, this is not something to be feared, but to be expected, yea, to be hoped for, because just as "the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease" (Ezra 5:5), so the eye of our God is upon us if we are doing the work of our God, and the Enemy cannot cause the work to cease.

It's always in the back of my mind that, biblically, the Devil isn't portrayed with horns and a pitchfork... Instead, the enemy always comes disguised as everything you want and think you need.

Я попался в ловушку, склонность к добродетели пробудила во мне нежность к дьяволу.

I can resist anything except temptation.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.