490 Quotes About Temptation

An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones.

An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company.

We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.

Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?

If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the fruit from the garden! In appearance it may glisten to the eye; but the perishable pleasure of possession quickly avenges the curse of curiosity.

Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin.

I'm highly aware that some impulses are harder to ignore than others. I'm aware that fear of consequences causes us to guard our secrets. But it's our actions when faced with temptation that define who we are. It's our courage in admitting what we've done wrong that makes us forgivable.