Temptation Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Temptation.
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“Get thee behind me, Satan.”
“To beguile many and be beguil'd by one.”
“Entbehren sollst du! sollst entbehren.”
“Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.”
“I am that way going to temptation,
Where prayers cross.”
“I can resist everything except temptation.”
“What's done we partly may compute,
But know not what's resisted.”
“How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes ill deeds done!”
“Honest bread is very well—it's the butter that makes the temptation.”
“The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.”
“But Satan now is wiser than of yore,
And tempts by making rich, not making poor.”
“Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep.”
“The devil tempts us not—'tis we tempt him,
Reckoning his skill with opportunity.”
“Most dangerous
Is that temptation that doth goad us on
To sin in loving virtue.”
“Know'st thou not any whom corrupting gold
Would tempt unto a close exploit of death?”
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“Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back,
When gold and silver becks me to come on.”
“Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse;
Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.”
“Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.”