John Bunyan Quotes

If we didn't have to stand against temptation, we'd never know our own spiritual strength.

When temptation comes your way, name that boastful, deceitful giant “Goliath!” and do with it as David did to the Philistine of Gath.

There is no point in praying for victory over temptation if we are not willing to make a commitment to say no to it.

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.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

Were you to ask what are the means of overcoming temptations, I would answer: The first means is prayer; the second is prayer; the third is prayer; and you should you ask me a thousand times, I would repeat the same.

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

There's a lesson in every temptation.

Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair.

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

The people who need to overcome temptation to the highest degree have the hardest time doing it.

But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee.

Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.

'Honey, I'm Good' is a song about temptation, and we wanted to show what is possible if you can beat it.

Every time I say 'no' to a small temptation, I strengthen my will to say 'no' to a greater one.

I struggle just like everybody else struggles. It's always a struggle in life to overcome temptation. I just try and get through it. No one is perfect.

I can slay a devil when I see one, Steady practice mastery of self so not to be one

I learned by experience that you can change your circumstance. It's as simple as the serenity prayer; it's a very, very real thing.

It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.

If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. Let this be one aspect of our daily intercession: "God, preserve my soul, and keep my heart and all its ways so that I will not be entangled." When this is true in our lives, a passing temptation will not overcome us. We will remain free while others lie in bondage.

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

When temptations march monotonously in regiments, one waits for to pass.

I love the soul that dares tread the temptations of his years beneath his youthful feet.