God is good but not safe, and the urge for safe art is often a worldly temptation away from goodness.
The biggest temptation I believe is to feel comfortable, to feel like you've worked through all of that here on Earth, and are satisfied with this life.
. . . the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.
I resist the temptation to curate my apartment.
Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche.
When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger.
Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.
Money is emphasized in Scripture simply because our temptation to love it is inexplicably powerful.
How different the peace of God from that of the world! It calms the passions, preserves the purity of the conscience, is inseparable from righteousness, unites us to God and strengthens us against temptations. The peace of the soul consists in an absolute resignation to the will of God.
Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin.
There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist
What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!
(You) don't leave the chicken to watch the feed.
Our great Pattern hath showed us what our deportment ought to be in all suggestions and temptations. When the devil showed Him "all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them," to tempt Him withal, He did not stand and look upon them, viewing their glory, and pondering their empire. . . . but instantly, without stay, He cries, "Get thee hence, Satan. " Meet thy temptation in its entrance with thoughts of faith concerning Christ on the cross; this will make it sink before thee. Entertain no parley, no dispute with it, if thou wouldst not enter into it.
We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.
In times of temptation, of sorrow, of peace and of blessing, let us pray always, both alone and with our families.
These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.
Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill.
It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.
If there is something that you have to do, resist the temptation to do it under duress. Ask yourself, "What's the worst thing that would happen if I didn't do this?" And if you can get away with not doing it at all, don't do it. And then imagine what would it feel like to have this done. Spend a day or two, if you can, just 15 minutes here, 5 minutes here, 2 minutes here, here and here, imagining it completed in a way that pleases you! And then, the next time you decide that you're going to take action about it, the action is going to be a whole lot easier.