Peter Kreeft Quotes

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.

The more sin is rationalized, the greater the possibility of destruction by Satan's wolves.

On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.

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.

Though Satan instils his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements.

This world is half the devil's and my own, Daft with the drug that's smoking in a girl and curling round the bud that forks her eye.

Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.

The devil makes many disciples by preaching against sin. He convinces them that the great evil of sin, induces a crisis of guilt by which “God is satisfied," and after that he lets them spend the rest of their lives meditating on the intense sinfulness and evident reprobation of other men.

The spirits, they intoxicate me. I watched them infiltrate my soul. They try to say it's too late for me. Once I was promised absolution, there's only one solution for my sins. And I blame this world, for making a good man evil. Now I ain't getting into heaven, if the devil has his way.

The devil is a very big angel, but a very little man.

Satan does not tempt us just to make us do wrong things- he tempts us to make us lose what God has put into us through regeneration, namely, the possibility of being of value to God.

But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.

You must learn that if you are a Christian, you will without a doubt experience all kinds of opposition and evil inclinations in the flesh. For when you have faith, there will be a hundred more evil thoughts and a hundred more temptations than before.

The devil is no longer looking for an open door in your life. He will take any crack you give him.

The devil does not tempt unbelievers and sinners who are already his own.

The Bible teaches that all sin begins with sinful thinking.

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

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.

Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good.

Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.

Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil one could almost believe one's own secret sin didn't matter.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.

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

Whatever sin the heart of man is most prone to, that the devil will help forward.