Jesus Temptation Quotes

#1. My energy levels are off the charts. I can run all day, I breathe well, and I sweat a lot, so the toxins and impurities come out of my body.

Larry Fitzgerald

#2. Normal is an ideal. But it's not reality. Reality is brutal, it's beautiful, it's every shade between black and white, and it's magical. Yes, magical. Because every now and then, it turns nothing into something.

Tara Kelly

#3. Jesus does not impose intolerable restrictions on his disciples, he does not forbid them to look at anything, but bids them look on him. If they do that he knows that their gaze will always be pure, even when they look upon a woman.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#4. We can't flee from temptation in our own strength - but God will give us the strength we need, if we'll only seek it. A friend of mine says, When the devil knocks, I just send Jesus to the door!

Billy Graham

#5. When Satan tempted Adam, he was disguised as a serpent; when Satan tempted Jesus, he was not disguised. As we approach the End of the Age, Satan will gradually unmask himself. Matthew 24 and Revelation 13

Felix Wantang

#6. God with us." When our sins made it impossible for us to come to him, God took the outrageous step of coming to us, of making himself susceptible to sorrow, familiar with temptation, and vulnerable to sin's disruptive power, in order to cancel its claim. In Jesus we see how extreme God's love is.

Ann Spangler

#7. Spiritual fatherhood has nothing to do with power or control. It is a fatherhood of compassion.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#8. Life Lessons 4:4, 7, 10 - "It is written . ... It is written . ... it is written . ... " Jesus responded to each of Satan's three temptations by appealing to the unchanging Word of God: "It is written!" If we want to successfully overcome temptation, we must know what the Word says.

Charles F. Stanley

#9. We are giving in to the dangerous temptation to take the Jesus of the Bible and twist him into a version of Jesus we are more comfortable with.

David Platt

#10. There's a fine line between piety and wack-ass obsession, and people have been landing on the wrong side for thousands of years.

Jennifer Traig

#11. In the new enlightenment, the reason we are driven to become one with the life-process is not merely to experience some form of mystical oneness with everything. We strive to become one with it for the biggest reason there could be - so we can ultimately take responsibility for where it's going.

Andrew Cohen

#12. Accept, forgive and forget. Forgive not only the people who hurt us, but also forgive ourselves, accepting whatever is the outcome, then forget the wrongs, learn from them and move on. Holding on to the guilt and pain would just make life miserable for us.

Kcat Yarza

#13. Resistance to temptation means taking desire seriously. Both Jesus and Satan do.

Russell D. Moore

#14. Come, Lord Jesus, put an end to this state of sin, sorrow, and temptation;

Matthew Henry

#15. [Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold forth for them no temptation? Did Jesus suffer in vain?

Frank Harris

#16. There is One God. We have an epistemic center. There is meaning.

Tariq Ramadan

#17. In other words Jesus went into the desert to confront His enemy and throw down the gauntlet. He would prove Himself to be the legitimate shepherd of Israel by overcoming the temptations that had undone all of Israel's previous kings, including His mighty ancestor, King David.

Charles R. Swindoll

#18. Do not bargain with any temptation; lock yourself immediately in My[Jesus] Heart and, at the first opportunity, reveal the temptation to the confessor ... Do not fear struggle; courage itself often intimidates temptations, and they dare not attack us.

Mary Faustina Kowalska

#19. Jesus's first temptation was to be relevant: to turn stones into bread. Oh, how often I wished I could do that!

Mike Ditka

#20. Being an actress in Hollywood and being a celebrity tend to feed into one another, but just being a celebrity wouldn't really be interesting to me.

Demi Moore

#21. Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford.

Trevor Nunn

#23. Since God intends to make you like Jesus, he will take you through the same experiences Jesus went through. That includes loneliness, temptation, stress, criticism, rejection, and many other problems.

Rick Warren

#24. Every time you defeat a temptation, you become more like Jesus!

Rick Warren

#25. There are certain religions that require you to pray five times a day and I never understood why Christians aren't asked to pray five times a day.

Cathy Hughes

#26. In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation.

Kevin DeYoung

#27. After raising twins, you get organized.

Scott Ellis

#28. If you are a believer in Jesus Christ, you have power and you can resist temptation!

Joyce Meyer

#29. The Christian life begins with a firm no to the lifestyle of the devil. We need to remember this. We cannot remain Christians if we do not keep saying no to temptation as we go through life. And - mark you - one cannot say no to the devil unless one has first spoken a big, powerful yes to Jesus.

Anthony M. Coniaris