Temptation Of Christ Quotes

#1. I'm fighting to save myself, and save myself, I will. Mary Magdalene in The Last Temptation of Christ

Nikos Kazantzakis

#2. The film The Last Temptation of Christ, no matter what its defenders say, was a slap in the face to Christians everywhere.

Mickey Rooney

#3. 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

#4. Faith in the atonement and intercession of Christ will keep us steadfast and immovable amid the temptations that press upon us in the church militant.

Ellen G. White

#5. The temptation with a man of refined thought and high education is to depart from the simple truth of Christ crucified, and to invent, as the term is, a more intellectual doctrine.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#6. A world filled with temptations needs priests who are totally dedicated to their mission. Accordingly, they are asked in a very special way to open themselves fully to serving others as Christ did by embracing the gift of celibacy.

Pope Benedict XVI

#7. Our office ... subjects us to great burdens and labors, dangers and temptations, with little reward or gratitude from the world. But Christ himself will be our reward if we labor faithfully.

Martin Luther

#8. What is impossible to me as an imitator of Christ, becomes perfectly natural as a participant of Christ. It is Only when Christ nullifies the force of my inherent "self' life," and communicates to me a Divine life, that Christian living in its true sense, is at all possible for me.

F. Huegel

#9. When we succumb to temptation, we are failing to believe in that moment that everything we need, in Christ we already have.

Tullian Tchividjian

#10. 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

#11. Man does not live by bread alone.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#12. Would you be free from the condemnation of the sins that are past, from the power of the temptations that are to come? Then take your stand on the Rock of Ages. Let death, let the grave, let the judgment come, the victory is Christ's and yours through Him.

Dwight L. Moody

#13. We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because he was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means.

C.S. Lewis

#14. Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.

R.C. Sproul

#15. 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

#16. True Christians are assured that no temptation (or trial) shall happen to them but what they shall be enabled to bear; and that the grace of Christ shall be sufficient for them.

Roger Sherman

#17. Christ's whole life on earth was the assertion and example of true manliness - the setting forth in living act and word what man is meant to be, and how he should carry himself in this world of God - one long campaign in which the temptation stands out as the first great battle and victory.

Thomas Hughes

#18. What's important is something other than I'm proven to be right. What's important is truth and hope and, and above all these, love.

Russell D. Moore

#19. Everyone has temptations but some folks entertain them ... Get your eyes off the temptation and onto Christ!

Billy Graham

#20. God also puts His people in the middle of things for the same reason that He put the tree of temptation in the middle of the garden
so that our choice to follow Him would be a conscious, daily one. Every time we publicly choose to live for Christ, He is glorified.

Lynn Austin

#21. In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of service; a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself.

Vincent Nichols

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

Joyce Meyer

#23. 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

#24. A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words

Saint Augustine

#25. Strengthen your commitment to Christ - now. Don't wait until the storms of temptation, or sickness, or old age threaten to blow you off-course; now is the time to strengthen your faith.

Billy Graham

#26. Most (Christians) have an ungrounded trust in Christ, hoping that He will pardon, justify and save them, while the world has their hearts, and they live to the flesh. And this trust they take as justifying faith.

Richard Baxter

#27. Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?

Charles Spurgeon

#28. Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.

Alexander MacLaren

#29. If Christ justifies you, He will sanctify you! He will not save you and leave you in your sins.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#30. Mere mental assimilation of these truths cannot withstand temptation, however. The revelation of God is positively essential. The Spirit of God must reveal how we are in Christ and how we are united with Him in one.

Watchman Nee