Satan Temptation Quotes

#1. 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

#2. A temptation is Satan's cheap substitute for the real gifts from heaven the Father has given us.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#3. 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

#4. Temptation and testing (or a trial) are two sides of the same coin. Satan uses an occasion or a person to tempt us to fall; God uses the same to try us and make us stronger.

Ruth Graham

#5. This much is true: When you are about to effect the lives of hundreds of people, Satan will do everything he can to prevent it from happening. Often pride and anger are his best assassins.

Shannon L. Alder

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

Russell D. Moore

#7. Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.

Robert Herrick

#8. Every stage of life has its own temptations and dangers, and Satan will do all he can to exploit them ... the time to prepare is now, not when it arrives.

Billy Graham

#9. The Holy Ghost is the only One who can detect the temptations of Satan, neither our common sense nor our human wisdom can detect them as temptations.

Oswald Chambers

#10. I should have shouted "No" and left him. "But at least" said Satan in the deeps of my mind, "know what the temptation is before you do anything hastily.

Lord Dunsany

#11. The confirmed stick-in-the-mud will always fall victim to the interventions of other people acting on impulse, because if habit is his religion, then his Satan is change, and in the end, we are all prey to temptation.

Michael Chabon

#12. Satan will tempt you with many things in life, but the most powerful is the temptation to be grateful for what you have, when it is not the best life God had to offer you.

Shannon L. Alder

#13. Temptation is not his (Satan's) strongest weapon. Despair is.

Dennis Garvin

#14. We see that humanism has become for many a polite name for a vocal, aggressive, influential crusade against religion in the name of social and moral advance. There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan's first temptation of Adam and Eve: "Ye shall be as gods" [Genesis 3:5 KJV].

Billy Graham

#15. I am human because God made me. I experience suffering and temptation because mankind chose to follow Satan. God is reaching out to me to rescue me. I am learning to trust Him, learning to live by His precepts that I might be preserved.

Donald Miller

#16. It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.

George Muller

#17. 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

#18. Temptation is a strong weapon that Satan uses against the children of God

Sunday Adelaja

#19. Be sure that Satan will tempt you at your weak point, not the strong.

Billy Graham

#20. In moments of unmet desire, heartbreak, or grief, Satan sends a poisonous arrow of doubt straight at your heart. This was his plan with Eve. He persuaded her to think God was "holding out on her" and that she would be better off not listening to Him.

Marian Jordan Ellis

#21. The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan.

Arthur Koestler

#22. I share a warning. Satan is extremely good at blocking spiritual communication by inducing individuals, through temptation, to violate the laws upon which spiritual communication is founded. With some, he is able to convince them that they are not able to receive such guidance from the Lord.

Richard G. Scott

#23. Get thee behind me, Satan!

P.C. Cast

#24. Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away Paradise. Therefore in all temptations let us consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.

Richard Sibbes

#25. Sometimes, God on purpose allows Satan to tempt human.
One should keep on praying to be kept away of temptation.

Toba Beta

#26. Temptation can be defined as an inducement to do evil. Three powerful forces work together to ruin a believer's character and witness: Satan, the world system, and our own lustful "flesh" tendencies.

Charles Stanley

#27. Satan's primary temptation strategy is to try and make us forget what God has said about us and to evaluate our standing before God by some other criteria

J.D. Greear

#28. The Bible is intensely practical, and one of the reasons God gave it to us is so we'll be better prepared to deal with life's problems and temptations. All too often we respond to these in ways that don't reflect Christ ... when we do that, Satan is the winner and the cause of Christ suffers.

Billy Graham

#29. The moment we give into temptation, Satan immediately changes his strategy and becomes the accuser. Thomas Brooks

Thomas Brooks

#30. Satan's temptation may be summed up as appealing to man in this way: it made man desire to have what God had forbidden, to know what God had not revealed, and to be what God had not intended for him to be

Henry Clarence Thiessen

#31. Temptation isn't impersonal - there is an actual enemy doing the tempting. Mark treats Satan as a reality, not a myth. This is certainly jarring in contemporary cultures that are skeptical of the existence of the supernatural, let alone the demonic.

Timothy Keller

#32. There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan's first temptation of Adam and Eve: "Ye shall be as gods." (Gen. 3:5)

Billy Graham

#33. Have you been tormented with fears and doubts? Bombarded with temptation to sin? Try praising the Lord, and watch Satan flee.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#34. If the 'self-life' is supreme, Satan does not have to be invited in. The lines are already set for the 'electric' current to flow. Satan is master of ceremonies, though he be apparently non-existent.

F. Huegel

#35. 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

#36. There is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.

Soren Kierkegaard

#37. Satan's chief device of temptation is to attack the truth of God.

R.C. Sproul

#38. 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

#39. A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations.

Mahatma Gandhi