Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
TemptationCowardiceProtection There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
TemptationWealthCunningEvil But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
TemptationWealthPovertyStrategy Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
Self-ControlMoralityTemptationFateConsequence To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
DeprivationTemptationDisobediencePunishment I never had anything good, no sweet, no sugar; and that sugar, right by me, did look so nice, and my mistress's back was turned to me while she was fighting with her husband, so I just put my fingers in the sugar bowl to take one lump, and maybe she heard me, for she turned and saw me. The next minute, she had the rawhide down.
MarriageTemptationOpportunity Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
EvilSinceritySelf-awarenessTemptation I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
CharityTemptationFearSpiritualityVirtue Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
SinTemptationHuman FrailtySpiritual DangerDisgrace Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.
