Temptation

“everything is not fine for many godly people and I want to convince you, whether you are one of those people or one of their leaders, that internal anguish and powerful inward temptations are actually normal according to the Bible’s account of Christian experience.” - London Lyceum

“Watson warns that as we ease off in pursuing our relationship with God, we open ourselves to the temptations of the devil, for a fallow field bears weeds rather than wheat, and a fallow life bears sin rather than sanctification.” - Challies

“What is temptation? As John Owen notes, ‘It is raising up in the heart, and proposing unto the mind and affections, that which is evil; trying, as it were, whether the soul will close with its suggestions, or how far it will carry them on, though it do not wholly prevail….’” - Ref21

“No way out. Who hasn’t felt the force of these words in the midst of bitterness, lust, or a thousand other temptations?… If some lies have slain their thousands, this lie has slain its ten thousands.” - Desiring God

“It offers hope for a Christian fighting misplaced impulses and longings, since the Bible offers guidance in how to overcome temptation (see more below).” - Ponder Anew

“In many cases, sin does express itself in shocking debauchery—but most often it expresses itself in more invisible or easily justifiable ways of ‘walking in the flesh.’” - Russel Moore

Pastor Tom Buck of First Baptist Church Lindale, Texas “takes issue with how Shaw explains navigating same-sex attraction and has called on Sam Allberry and The Gospel Coalition (TGC) not to support Shaw any longer.” - C.Leaders

“There exists within Christianity a temptation to performative acts that masquerade as fearlessness. In reality, this recklessness represents—as the early church father John Chrysostom called it—’display and vainglory.’” - Coronavirus, Courage, and the Second Temptation of Christ

On Thomas Brooks (d.1680): “Brooks characterized this strategy as ‘making the soul bold to venture upon the occasions of sin.’ Like many of the devil’s lies, it distorts a truth, namely that temptation is not sin. The Christian who is tempted only sins when he surrenders to the temptation; being outwardly tempted is not a sin.