A Quote by Charles Spurgeon

Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.

Charles Spurgeon

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Charles Spurgeon
British - Priest
June 19, 1834 - January 31, 1892

From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb which says that the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some people say that you should not tempt fate and for them I cannot disagree, but I never learned anything from playing it safe. I say fate should not tempt me.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.

Saint Augustine

What the entertainment industry can do is tempt you into making stupid mistakes, but the only tool that they have to tempt you is money. So if youre okay saying no to money, then you can say no to a lot of things that you might be embarrassed of later.

Paul Schneider

The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God.

Bob Jones, Sr.

The devil does not tempt unbelievers and sinners who are already his own.

Thomas a Kempis

The devil does not tempt people whom he finds suitably employed.

Jeremy Taylor

The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.

George Eliot

There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that theft is to them a master passion.

William Booth

The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about the misery of man, and they tempt you to despair.

Blaise Pascal

You cannot tempt the hearts of men who are pure.

Brandon Sanderson

The devil's characteristic has been to originate sin and tempt others to sin

Wayne Grudem

For the devil may tempt the good, but he cannot find rest in them; for he is shaken violently, and upset, and driven out, now by their prayers, now by their tears of repentance, and now by their almsgiving and similar good works.

Bruno of Cologne

It is criminal negligence to leave suckers lying around to tempt honest men.

Wilson Mizner

You tempt me.I can't be tempted.I'm not made to be tempted,but you,Pagan Moore,you tempt me.From the moment i came for you i was drawn in.Everything about you.."One of his hands left my waist and moved up to gently caress my arm."You make me crazy with need.With want.I didn't understand it at first.But now i know.It's your soul calling to me.Souls mean nothing to me.They aren't supposed to.But yours has become my obsession.