Resisting Temptation Quotes

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.

Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live.

Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.

There's a lesson in every temptation.

The best thing anybody has ever done is to advise me against publishing a poem that shows me at less than my best, such as it is. That's the kind of advice most of us resist but really should relish.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

I never drink. I cannot do it, on equal terms with others. It costs them only one day; but me three, the first in sinning, the second in suffering, and the third in repenting.

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

I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

There is no halfway or lackadaisical way to fight lust. If you're not fighting your sin, you're befriending your sin.

It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later.

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

At some point in your career, someone is going to tell you, "This stove is hot. Do not touch this stove." And the weird thing is, you'll want to touch it. But resist that urge, man.

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

To tempt, and to be tempted, are things very nearly allied, and, in spite of the finest maxims of morality impressed upon the mind, whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of, and I have yet to learn how it is possible to prevent its being excited.

Satan knows that the nature of humankind is to act out of how we feel rather than what we know. One of our most important defenses against satanic influence will be learning how to behave out of what we know is truth rather than what we feel.

It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out.

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

The idea of holding back certainly didn't come from Scripture.

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.

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.

On this earth all is temptation. Crosses tempt us by irritating our pride, and prosperity by flattering it. Our life is a continual combat, but one in which Jesus Christ fights for us. We must pass on unmoved, while temptations rage around us, as the traveler, overtaken by a storm, simply wraps his cloak more closely about him, and pushes on more vigorously toward his destined home.

Enjoying the bouquet while resisting the wine." -Edward

I don't have the strength to stay away from you anymore