C. S. Lewis Quotes

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

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

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

One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures.

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

You tempt me. I can’t be tempted. I’m not made to be tempted.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

Let no man pretend to fear sin that does not fear temptation also! These two are too closely united to be separated. He does not truly hate the fruit who delights in the root.

Many of us suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer.

Every time the enemy throws us off our guard, and we give way to temptation, he gains so much; he weakens us and strengthens himself; when we resist temptation, it strengthens the Saints and weakens the enemy.

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

Temptation's something you have to deal with even if you're not famous. It's harder when you're famous because it's a lot more in your face, and that makes it a little more difficult to walk away from sometimes.

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

Temptation to behave is terrible.

The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.

I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.