490 Quotes About Temptation

While you and I have to expect temptation, we sure don’t have to feed it.

Pray that temptation may not come upon you, but when it does come, accept it as something not alien but your own.

When you 'flee' from Potiphar's wife, she starts giving you cold shoulders.

The temptation to spend money increases as a person’s opportunities increase.

Temptation is temptation.” Lucy flipped anotherpage, her reading intent and steady. “No matter what the stakes.

We have been having a Ménage à trois with the lies that others told us and the lies we tell ourselves for so long that we have convinced ourselves that it is normalcy. When we begin to read, hear or even see truth our minds reject it and our minds’ eye closes to what we view as temptation; as if we would be cheating on our trio so instead we cheat ourselves out of knowledge and growth.

Even in cases where most people are doing the right thing, talking about the minority who are doing the wrong thing can encourage people to give in to temptation.

Temptation is a test of your relationship, not your self-control.

God also puts His people in the middle of things for the same reason that He put the tree of temptation in the middle of the garden--so that our choice to follow Him would be a conscious, daily one. Every time we publicly choose to live for Christ, He is glorified.