Temptation.—'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.—Shakespeare.
Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle.—Spurgeon.
If men had only temptations to great sins, they would always be good; but the daily fight with little ones accustoms them to defeat.—Richter.
Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.—Dryden.
Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.—J.Q. Adams.
When a man resists sin on human motives only, he will not hold out long.—Bishop Wilson.
We must not willfully thrust ourselves into the mouth of danger, or draw temptations upon us. Such forwardness is not resolution, but rashness; nor is it the fruit of a well-ordered faith, but an overdaring presumption.—King.
But Satan now is wiser than of yore,
And tempts by making rich, not making poor.
—Pope.
God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.—William Penn.
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.—Matthew 26:41.