Francis Quarles Quotes

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

There is also an age-old excuse: “The devil made me do it.” Not so! He can deceive you and mislead you, but he does not have the power to force you or anyone else to transgress or to keep you in transgression.

It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts.

The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing.

Evil isn't prejudiced. It doesn't care what you look like; it just wants a place to rest. It's up to you whether you give it that place.

No temptation, no pressure, no enticing can overcome us unless we allow such. If we make the wrong choice, we have no one to blame but ourselves.

In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth.

Sin and the devil will always find helpers in our hearts.

So now the devil's in my soul.

Eve didn't choose to eat the apple. She was tempted by the serpent." "Yes," I argue, thoughts coming out half-formed. "But...she didn't have to take a bite. She chose to.

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.

We all have a dark place in us. It's what we do with it and the choice we make.

No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.

It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

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

God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.

Never give the devil a ride! He will always want to drive!

Thou mayest rule over sin.

Acts of the devil revealed and reveled, designed to recline the mind to lower level.

Evil has only the power we give it.

Here in St. Cloud’s,” Dr. Larch wrote, “ I have been given the choice of playing God or leaving practically everything up to chance. It is my experience that practically everything is left up to chance much of the time; men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God – we should seize those moments. There won’t be may