Quotations about temptations

But your old enemy so baits his hook,
He drags you eager to him. Hence nor curb
Avails you, nor reclaiming call. Heav'n calls
And round about you wheeling courts your gaze
With everlasting beauties. Yet your eye
Turns with fond doting still upon the earth.
Therefore He smites you who discerneth all."

Dante Alighieri. The Divine Comedy (Purgatory: Canto XIV).

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 10:13

{22:45} When he rose up from his prayer, he came to the disciples, and found them sleeping because of grief,

{22:46} and said to them, "Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation."

The Good News According to Luke 22:45-46

Give me any plague but the plague of the heart;
And any wickedness but the wickedness of a woman;
Any calamity, but a calamity from those who hate me;
And any vengeance, but the vengeance of enemies.
There is no head above the head of a serpent;
And there is no wrath above the wrath of an enemy.
I will rather dwell with a lion and a dragon,
Than keep house with a wicked woman.
The wickedness of a woman changes her look,
And darkens her countenance as a bear does.
Her husband will sit at meat among his neighbors,
And when he hears it he sighs bitterly.
All malice is but little to the malice of a woman:
Let the portion of a sinner fall on her.
As the going up a sandy way is to the feet of the aged,
So is a wife full of words to a quiet man.
Throw not yourself upon the beauty of a woman;
And desire not a woman for her beauty.
There is anger, and impudence, and great reproach,
If a woman maintain her husband.
A wicked woman is abasement of heart,
And sadness of countenance, and a wounded heart:
A woman that will not make her husband happy
Is as hands that hang down, and palsied knees.
From a woman was the beginning of sin;
And because of her we all die.
Give not water an outlet;
Neither to a wicked woman freedom of speech.
If she go not † as you would have her,
Cut her off from your flesh.

The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach 25:13-26

Man is never safe from them as long as he lives, for they come from within us -- in sin we were born.

When one temptation or trial passes, another comes; we shall always have something to suffer because we have lost the state of original blessedness.

The Imitation Of Christ (13)

{3:10} For, "He who would love life, and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.

Peter's First Letter 3:10

{1:13} Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.
{1:14} But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.
{1:15} Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

The Letter from James 1:13-15

{1:2} Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,
{1:3} knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
{1:4} Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

The Letter from James 1:2-4

{6:12} For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Paul's Letter to the Ephesians 6:12

{6:9} ...Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
{6:10} nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God.

Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 6:9-10

Watch and pray, that you don't enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Matthew 26:41

True peace of heart, then, is found in resisting passions, not in satisfying them.

There is no peace in the carnal man, in the man given to vain attractions, but there is peace in the fervent and spiritual man.

Thomas À Kempis

Turn away your eye from a comely woman, And gaze not on another's beauty: By the beauty of a woman many have been led astray; And herewith love is kindled as a fire.

The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach 9:8

Make not merry in much luxury; Neither be tied to the expense thereof.

The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach 18:32

Go not after your lusts; And refrain yourself from your appetites.

The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach 18:30

Blessed is he whose soul does not condemn him...

The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach 14:2

But there was none like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

The First Book of Kings 21:25

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