Johann Arndt Quotes

When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.

Satan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God.

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

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

As the world's getting filled with temptations, we're getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.

The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

I have looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God recognizes I will do this and forgives me.

Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

The sin that now rises to memory as your bosom sin, let this first of all be withstood and mastered. Oppose it instantly by a detestation of it, by a firm will to conquer it, by reflection, by reason, and by prayer.

When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone.

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

Indulgences, not fulfillment, is what the world Permits us.

Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone.

There is more magic in sin if it is not committed.

Be killing sin or it will be killing you.

Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again.

Sin is blatant mutiny against God.

When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be.

O Master, make me chaste, but not yet!

...the fall of man in paradise has always been followed by his expulsion.

You just wait. I'll sin 'til I blow up!

I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.

When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.