Quotes About The Devil And Temptation

#1. The righteousness that makes a man visit the sins of a father upon his children, is the righteousness of a devil, not the righteousness of God. When God visits the sins of a father on his children, it is to deliver the child from his own sins through yielding to inherited temptation.

George MacDonald

#2. There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.

Henry Ward Beecher

#3. The devil doesn't need to invent any new temptations; the old ones work as well as they ever have.

Billy Graham

#4. You know, it's never wise to tempt the devil"
His gaze lowered to her hand, still locked in his grip, her finger glistening with pear juice.
His rich voice lowered to raw huskiness "had I not this mask, I should be of a mind to suck that juice right off your fingers

Kristen Callihan

#5. An idle person is the devil's tennis ball, which he bandies up and down with temptation until at last the ball goes out of play.

Thomas Watson

#6. But the guarding of our desires is more than fighting a rear-guard defensive action against temptations from the world, the flesh, and the devil. We must take the offensive. Paul directs us to set our hearts on things above, that is, on spiritual values (Colossians 3:1).

Jerry Bridges

#7. Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

Anne Baxter

#8. Every hour of temptation in one's life has origin. Either from the flesh or the devil .

Osunsakin Adewale

#9. God invites while the devil pressures and shoves and bullies. Realize who holds the actual power before you react. You are greater than Satan; God is greater than all.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#10. The devil will suggest some activities to you to make you leave your primary goal

Sunday Adelaja

#11. The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for ...

Tucker Max

#12. Satan rejoices when old habits overwhelm [us] and we cave in to the pressure of the crowd ... perhaps temptation lures [us] into sin ... a backsliding Christian compromises their faith and causes unbelievers to mock the Gospel.

Billy Graham

#13. Your temptations are from the devil and from Hell; but your sufferings and afflictions are from God and Heaven.

Pio Of Pietrelcina

#14. Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.

Edward De Bono

#15. Temptation is an opportunity to please God and shame the devil.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.

Robert Herrick

#17. The guy was a piece of sin. If he were the devil holding a contract, this would be the moment I might just give in to temptation and sign over my soul.

J.C. Reed

#18. That's the temptation of the devil: "Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!"

Henri Nouwen

#19. If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something else responsible.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#20. 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

#21. We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business ...

Margaret Deland

#22. He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop.

Robert South

#23. I know as well as any one, [the devil] is an adversary, whom if we resist, he will fly from us
but I seldom resist him at all; from a terror, that though I may conquer, I may still get a hurt in the combat
soinstead of thinking to make him fly, I generally fly myself.

Laurence Sterne

#24. Temptation is not a sin. It is the yielding that is sin. All temptation is from the devil.

Billy Graham

#25. Fear is the devil's most powerful tool because he can't always convince a good man to do wrong, but he can paralyze his will with fright, keeping a good man from doing what is right. It eventually results in the same end.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#26. Dr. Bob Jones, Sr. observed, The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independently of God.

Jim Berg

#27. The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To his extreme annoyance, tempted him.

Hilaire Belloc

#28. Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I'm not sure man needs the help.

Bill Watterson

#29. One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.

John Gardner

#30. 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

#31. Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.

James Joyce

#32. Sometimes the devil tempts me to believe in God.

Bill Vaughan

#33. What we are taught to seek or shun in prayer, we should equally pursue or avoid in action. Very earnestly, therefore, should we avoid temptation, seeking to walk so guardedly in the path of obedience, that we may never tempt the devil to tempt us.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#34. The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood.

Martin Luther

#35. Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

Billy Sunday

#36. I never claimed to be an angel and even the devil could only play with fire for so long before he gave in to unholy temptation and danced in the flames.

Jay Crownover

#37. Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.

William Shakespeare

#38. The devil and temptations also do give occasion unto us somewhat to learn and understand the Scriptures, by experience and practice. Without trials and temptations we should never understand anything thereof; no, not although we diligently read and heard the same.

Martin Luther

#39. The goal of temptation is to make you fall. So it is the devil who tempts you, not God!

Pedro Okoro

#40. Your level is above the reach of the devil ... Keep it in mind; as long as you are in the light of God, you bind him (the devil) tight!

Israelmore Ayivor

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

Adam Hamilton

#42. I find it most true that the greatest temptation outside of hell is to live without temptations; if water stands, it rots; faith is the better for the sharp winter storm in its face and grace withers without adversity. The devil is but God's master fencer to teach us to handle our weapons.

Samuel Rutherford

#43. Never do what the devil provokes you to do

Sunday Adelaja

#44. From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb which says that the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil.

Charles Caleb Colton