Thomas Brooks Quotes

I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

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

There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding 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.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

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.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

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

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

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

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

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

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

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

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

Nobody likes to lose power or reach a point of humility.

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

I can resist everything except temptation.

Sometimes the only way you conquer the pull of power is to set it down.

To defend oneself by alliance is proof of cowardice.

I can't resist temptation of any kind.

Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.

I am of a different mind ten times in the course of a day. But I resist the devil, and often it is with a fart that I chase him away. When he tempts me with silly sins I say, 'Devil, yesterday I broke wind too. Have you written it down on your list?

Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin.