Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, tempteth he any man: But every man is tempted, when his drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceiveth, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. James 1:13-15.
Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like to keep in touch. > Robert Orben.
Change your thoughts and you change your world. > Norman Vincent Peale.
The things that I can’t have I want, and what I have seems second-rate; The things I want to do I can’t, and what I do I hate. > Don Marquis.
Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is… a man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what I would have been like a hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. we never find out strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it; and Christ, because he was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means–the only complete realist. > C. S. Lewis.
Virtue consists, not in abstracting from vice, but in not desiring it. > George Bernard Shaw.
Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare. > John Dryden.
The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win. > Charles H. Spurgeon.
Lord, often have I thought to myself, I will sin but this one sin more, and then I will repent of it, and of all the rest of my sins put together. So foolish was I and ignorant. As if I should be more able to pay my debts when I owe more; or as if I should say, “I will wound my friend once again, and then I will lovingly shake hands with him.” But what if my friend will not shake hands with me? > Thomas Fuller.
I can resist anything except temptation. > Oscar Wilde.
See also Matthew 26:14; 1 Corinthians 10:13; Hebrews 2:14-18; 4:15.
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