Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; for no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labor is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.

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

I'd have to say, and I think that most Christians would hold the view, that there is such a thing as evil, and there are evil forces at work. You can articulate that by talking about Satan or the Devil; that's sound, Scriptural teaching.

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.

Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.

Keep always busy so that the devil will find you always engaged.

The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.

Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar.

Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.

Idle minds are the devil's research-and-development department.

It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.

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

The Devil doesn't fear austerity but holy obedience.

There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.

Satan has his sights on the United States of America.

Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever

The best way to resist temptation is to avoid it. Prevention is far, far better than repentance.

Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do.

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

you can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.' 'My pet, I've been to the Devil and he's a very dull fellow. I won't go there again, not even for you.

The devil has no power over us only as we permit him. The moment we revolt at anything which comes from God, the devil takes power.