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Temptation: Quotations from Burning Words

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers. On this earth all is temptation. Crosses tempt us by irritating our pride, and prosperity by flattering it. Our life is a continual combat, but one in which Jesus Christ fights for us, We must pass on unmoved, while temptations rage around us, as the traveler, overtaken by a storm, simply wraps his cloak more closely about him, and pushes on more vigorously toward his destined home.— FENELON

The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation. In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me.— FENELON

Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that roared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.— JOHN BUNYAN

We often wonder that certain men and women are left by God to the commission of sins that shock us. We wonder how, under the temptation of a single hour, they fall from the very heights of virtue and of honor into sin and shame. The fact is that there are no such falls as these, or there are next to none. These men and women are those who have dallied with temptation - have exposed themselves to the influence of it, and have been weakened and corrupted by it.— J. G. HOLLAND

We are to keep ourselves from opportunities, and God will keep us from sin. Christian ! thou knowest thou carriest gunpowder about thee. Desire them that carry fire to keep at a distance. It is a dangerous crisis, when a proud heart meets with flattering lips.— JOHN FLAVEL

The devil tempts us not; 'tis we tempt him, Beckoning his skill with opportunity.— GEORGE ELIOT

Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.— THOMAS À KEMPIS

When tempted, the shortest and surest way is to act like a little child at the breast; when we show it a frightful monster, it shrinks back and buries its face in its mother's bosom, that it may no longer behold it.— FENELON