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“Satan tempts, and then he tempts a man to think it is no temptation.” -- William Bridge
“You cannot prevent the birds from flying in the air over your head, but you can certainly prevent them from building a nest in your hair.” -- Attributed to Martin Luther
“You are a lot worse than you think you are.” -- Jack Miller
“In those temptations that arise from our own hearts, we are never without fault” -- Richard Gilpin
“Temptation may even be a blessing to a man when it reveals to him his weakness and drives him to the almighty Savior.” -- F. B. Meyer
“It isn’t biblically accurate to say that temptation is only sinful when we yield to it.” -- Kyle Borg
“Christ’s temptations were all of them sinless, but very many of the temptations of fallen man are sinful: that is, they are the hankering and solicitation of forbidden and wicked desire. The desire to steal, to commit adultery, to murder, is sinful, and whoever is tempted by it to the act of theft, or adultery, or murder, is sinfully tempted.” -- W. G. T. Shedd
“And in nothing the sinfulness of sin appears more than this, that it hides all it can, the knowledge of itself.” -- Richard Sibbes
“When such a temptation comes from without, it is unto the soul an indifferent thing, neither good nor evil, unless it be consented unto; but the very proposal from within, it being the soul’s own act, is its sin.” -- John Owen
“The eye...is the broker between the heart and all wicked lusts that be in the world.” -- Lancelot Andrewes
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