When one temptation goeth away, another cometh; and we shall ever have something to suffer.
Many seek to fly temptations, and fall more grievously into them.
By flight alone we can not overcome, but by patience and humility we conquer all our enemies.
He that only avoideth them outwardly, and doth not pluck them up by the roots, shall profit little: yea, temptations will soon return unto him, and he shall feel them worse than before.
By patience (through God’s help) thou shalt more easily overcome, than by harsh and disquieting efforts in thy own strength.
Often take counsel in temptations; and deal not roughly with him that is tempted.
The beginning of temptation is inconstancy of mind, and little confidence in God.
For as a ship without a rudder is tossed to and fro with the waves, so the man that is negligent is many ways tempted.
Fire trieth iron, and temptation a just man.
We know not often what we are able to do: but temptations show us what we are.