Charles Spurgeon Quotes About Temptation

• Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

  Charles Spurgeon

  Temptation, Idle, Industrious

• In all states of dilemma or of difficulty, prayer is an available source. The ship of prayer may sail through all temptations, doubts and fears, straight up to the throne of God; and though she may be outward bound with only griefs, and groans, and sighs, she shall return freighted with a wealth of blessings!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Grief, Blessing

• Watch constantly against those things which are thought to be no temptations. The most poisonous serpents are found where the sweetest flowers grow. Cleopatra was poisoned by an asp that was brought to her in a basket of fair flowers. Sharp-edged tools, long handled, wound at last.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Flower, Long

• If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Temptation, Satan

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.209, Discovery House

• If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation. Like the old knights in war time, we must sleep with helmet and breastplate buckled on, for the arch-deceiver will seize our first unguarded hour to make us his prey. The Lord keep us watchful in all seasons, and give us a final escape from the jaw of the lion and the paw of the bear.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, War, Sleep

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.209, Discovery House

• Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Temptation, Sometimes, Christ

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1857 & 1858: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.1679, New Leaf Publishing Group

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