Temptation Quotes

“Idolatry is not just a relic of the pagan past. It is a present-day temptation.”

“Oh! how difficult it is to make a woman condescend to enter into a breach of decorum, and how easy to make her go all lengths when she has once been prevailed upon to step over the first bounds of it.”

“The strength of a sin is the sinner's love for it.”

“The Devil, having nothing else to do, Went off to tempt My Lady Poltagrue.”

“As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm... so is the Christian tried in temptation.”

“Satan's first device is to present the bait and hide the hook.”

“Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.”

“Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.”

“I can resist everything except temptation.”

“The beast in me is caged by frail and fragile bars.”

“The love of a woman and a bottle of wine are sweet poison.”

“My mind's tellin' me no, but my body, my body's tellin' me yes.”

“For the intellectual, every luxury is a trap, and every relief a danger.”

“Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.”

“Lust is a spirit, which whosoe'er doth raise, the last man that puts down, let him be priest, conjurer, or both.”

“The man who has never been tempted is a fool.”

“For every man there is a Siren song.”

“The pious resolutions of the brain are often frustrated by the ungodly impulses of the stomach.”

“Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.”

“Satan is a skillful fisherman, and he has many sorts of bait wherewith he angles for the souls of men.”