Overcome Temptation Quotes

#1. Holiness is not freedom from temptation, but power to overcome temptation.

G. Campbell Morgan

#2. The devil can't make you do anything! Resistance is not futile. You can overcome temptation. Where

Adam Hamilton

#3. 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

#4. The people who need to overcome temptation to the highest degree have the hardest time doing it.

Dan Ariely

#5. Well, what do you think you're doing, then? Spying?"

"I told you, it's the unfortunate hotness of evil. Hotness that burns like the flames of cute, cute hell." Rusty placed his hand on his heart. "But like I said, don't worry. I will overcome temptation, no matter how temptacious.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#6. 'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

William Penn

#7. A total commitment to anxiously serve the Lord and others is the surest way to overcome temptations of the adversary.

James M. Paramore

#8. I have great admiration for power, a great terror of weakness, especially in my own sex, yet feel that my love is for those who overcome the mental and moral suffering and temptation through excess of tenderness rather than through excess of strength.

Anna Brownell Jameson

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

John Bunyan

#10. It is a sin when I place myself deliberately in the place of temptation ... either because I enjoy the prospect or because I'm not determined enough in my desire to overcome it.

Alistair Begg

#11. As we touch the temple and love the temple, our lives will reflect our faith. As we go to the holy house, as we remember the covenants we make therein, we will be able to bear every trial and overcome each temptation.

Thomas S. Monson

#12. O help me Father in heaven to overcome and resist temptation in every form or shape.

Emmeline B. Wells

#13. When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger.

Thomas Brooks

#14. There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury; and, if he is overcome, you share his guilt.

Samuel Johnson

#15. It was as if I were powerless to resist the temptation; my senses were overcome. I could hear the emptiness, and taste the silence, and smell the solitude, and I wanted it more than I have ever wanted anything before.

Nick Hornby

#16. Even the acceptance of personal responsibility may not overcome the temptation to believe that now is not the time to repent. 'Now' can seem so difficult, and 'later' appear so much easier. The truth is that today is always a better day to repent than any tomorrow.

Henry B. Eyring

#17. Realize that enough hidden strength lies within you to overcome all obstacles and temptations. Bring forth that indomitable power and energy.

Paramahansa Yogananda