Quotes by Temptation Our office...subjects us to great burdens and labors, dangers and temptations, with little reward or gratitude from the world. But Christ himself will be our reward if we labor faithfully. Martin Luther gratitudeofficetemptation My temptations have been my Masters of Divinity. Martin Luther divinitymasterstemptation When you really put your heart and soul into something, the temptation is to try to be in control of circumstances, however you can, and looking and seeing how people are responding. Matt Bomer temptationheartpeople Your cable television is experiencing difficulties. Please do not panic. Resist the temptation to read or talk to loved ones. Do not attempt sexual relations, as years of TV radiation have left your genitals withered and useless. Matt Groening temptationtelevisionyears Where faith is not continually kept in motion and exercised, it weakens and decreases, so that it must indeed vanish; and yet we do not see nor feel this weakness ourselves, except in times of need and temptation, when unbelief rages too strongly; and yet for that very reason faith must have temptations in which it may battle and grow. Martin Luther battletemptationfaith The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood. Martin Luther strongtemptationblood You must learn that if you are a Christian, you will without a doubt experience all kinds of opposition and evil inclinations in the flesh. For when you have faith, there will be a hundred more evil thoughts and a hundred more temptations than before. Martin Luther temptationchristianevil There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them. Matthew Henry sorrowtemptationfear The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature. Matthew Simpson temptationspring 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. Matthew Henry omnipotencetemptationmight Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep. Matthew Henry gayskinstemptation I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation. Max Lerner principlessimpletemptation I am too impatient to wait for temptation to come to me. Mason Cooley impatienttemptationwaiting Either offer me something I really like, or stop trying to tempt me. Mason Cooley stop-tryingtemptationtrying Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil Mark Twain erringtemptationevil Writing an upbeat aphorism is a temptation, but decorum forbids. Mason Cooley aphorismtemptationwriting The temptation is for us to share our own opinions, our own thoughts and to speak from the whole realm of possibility. We can't do that as pastors. We need to have a strong voice of conviction, and the way we can do that is through Scripture. Max Lucado voicestrongtemptation Faith in Christ is able to endure doubts-it's able to endure temptations-bec ause it faces them, not because it pretends they're not there. Michael Horton abletemptationdoubt Character is both formed and revealed by how one deals with everyday situations as well as extraordinary pressures and temptations. Like a well-made tower, character is built stone by stone, decision by decision. Michael Josephson decisiontemptationcharacter Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me. Michel de Montaigne abletemptationexpectations«2021222324252627282930»
