Never... think we have a due knowledge of ourselves till we have been exposed to various kinds of temptations, and tried on every side. Integrity on one side of our character is no voucher for integrity on another. We cannot tell how we should act if brought under temptations different from those we have hitherto experienced. This thought should keep us humble. We are sinners, but we do not know how great. He alone knows who died for our sins.
John Henry Newman
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Why Do I Say Yes When I Need to Say No?: Overcoming the Trap of Temptation By Michelle McKinney Hammond Popular author Michelle Hammond's Why Do I Say "Yes" When I Need to Say "No"? is for every believer who struggles with temptation and the pain of falling short of God's plan. This book will help you gain control over temptation, discovering the life of abundance that God has created especially for them. |
I cannot tell how I am buffeted sometimes by temptation. I never knew how bad a heart I have. Yet I do know that I love God and love His work, and desire to serve him only and in all things. And I value above all else that precious Saviour in whom alone I can be accepted.
James Hudson Taylor
James Hudson Taylor Biography
If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. Let this be one aspect of our daily intercession: "God, preserve my soul, and keep my heart and all its ways so that I will not be entangled." When this is true in our lives, a passing temptation will not overcome us. We will remain free while others lie in bondage.
John Owen
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Every Young Man's Battle : Strategies for Victory in the Real World of Sexual Temptation By Stephen Arterburn & Fred Stoeker with Mike Yorkey Every Young Man's Battle will show young men how to train their eyes and minds, how to clean up their thought life, and develop a realistic battle plan for remaining pure in today's sexually soaked culture. The authors, Stephen Arterburn and Fred Stoeker, offer young Christian men workable, biblical strategies for achieving sexual purity. |
I need Thee, O Lord, for a curb on my tongue; when I am tempted to making carping criticisms and cruel judgements, keep me from speaking barbed words that hurt, and in which I find perverted satisfaction. Keep me from unkind words and from unkind silences. Restrain my judgements. Make my criticisms kind, generous, and constructive. Make me sweet inside, that I may be gentle with other people, gentle in the things I say, kind in what I do. Create in me that warmth of mercy that shall enable others to find Thy strength for their weakness, Thy peace for their strife, Thy joy for their sorrow, Thy love for their hatred, Thy compassion for their weakness. In thine own strong name, I pray. Amen.
Peter Marshall
Short Biography
The essence of temptation is the invitation to live independently of God.
Neil T. Anderson
Freedom in Christ Ministries
All the great temptations appear first in the region of the mind and can be fought and conquered there. We have been given the power to close the door of the mind. We can lose this power through disuse or increase it by use, by the daily discipline of the inner man in things which seem small and by reliance upon the word of the Spirit of truth. It is God that worketh in you, both to will and to do of His good pleasure. It is as though He said, 'Learn to live in your will, not in your feelings.'
Amy Carmichael
Biography and Bibliography
Unless you have never been tempted, don't pass judgement on someone who has yielded.
Anonymous
There is a slumbering inclination toward desire, which is both sudden and fierce. With irresistible power, desire seizes mastery... a secret, smouldering fire is kindled... at this moment God is quite unreal to us...the powers of clear discrimination and of decision are taken from us... the Bible teaches us in times of temptation... there is one command: Flee! Get away from it... for every struggle against lust in one's own strength is doomed to failure.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Bonhoeffer Home Page
Your state is not at all to be measured by the opposition that sin makes to you, but by the opposition you make to it.
John Owen
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Temptations Women Face: Honest Talk About Jealousy, Anger, Sex, Money, Food, Pride By Mary Ellen Ashcroft Mary Ellen Ashcroft knows about the confusing thoughts and feelings that women experience. In this book she writes about where the needs and motivations of women come from, what temptations hook into these needs, and how women can get beyond them. Ashcroft maintains that we should look honestly at our temptations and ask what they tell us about ourselves. She believes God's intention is not simply that we flee temptation, but that we be fully redeemed. This book shows the way through each temptation and how women can day by day begin to build a life pleasing to God. |
The devil and temptations also do give occasion unto us somewhat to learn and understand the Scriptures by experience and practice. Without trials and temptations we should never understand anything thereof; no, not although we diligently read and heard the same. The Holy Spirit must be the only master and tutor to teach us therein, and let youth and scholars not be ashamed to learn of this tutor. When I find myself in temptation, then I quickly lay hold and fasten on some text in the Bible which Christ Jesus layeth before me, namely, that he died for me, from whence I have and receive comfort.
Martin Luther
Biography and Information
Flee temptation and don't leave a forwarding address.
Anonymous
Unwillingness to accept God's "way of escape" from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within.
Jim Elliot
Brief Biography
Temptation can cause us to succumb, sink, sin, or stand.
William Ward
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Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it.
John Owen
Biography-Website
I am tempted to think that I am now an established Christian, - that I have overcome this or that lust so long, - that I have got into the habit of the opposite grace, - so that there is no fear; I may venture very near the temptation - nearer than other men. This is a lie of Satan. One might as well speak of gunpowder getting by habit of resisting fire, so as not to catch spark. As long as powder is wet, it resists the spark; but when it becomes dry, it is ready to explode at the first touch. As long as the Spirit dwells in my heart, He deadens me to sin, so that, if lawfully called through temptation, I may reckon upon God carrying me through. But when the Spirit leaves me, I am like dry gunpowder. Oh for a sense of this!
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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