Thomas a Kempis Quotes

No one is immune to temptation. Not even a hero. Not even a nobody. Not even people like you and me. Lust is never very far away. And just when you least expect it, there it is again.

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

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.

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

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

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.

The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.

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.

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

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.

Everybody has a sinful nature pulling them at every turn.

If we entertain temptations, soon they begin entertaining us!

The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.

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

The temptation is not here, where you are reading about it or praying about it. It is down in your shop, among bales and boxes, ten-penny nails, and sand-paper.

To be tempted is not to sin. The strongest attacks are made on the strongest forts.

I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.

My temptations have been my Masters of Divinity.

Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.

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.

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.

For they who think they make an end of temptation by yeilding to it, only set themselves on fire the more.

The seed of every sin is in every heart.