"Tempter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... will never know it," the tempter whispered, "and it is worth something to see the girls ...
— Family Pride - Or, Purified by Suffering • Mary J. Holmes
... will ill sustain Thee when the sorrows of death and the pains of hell get hold upon Thee!" So Satan came; but there was no response in the heart of Christ, no answering voice from the depths of His soul, no traitor within to join hands with the tempter without. There was no square inch of territory in all Christ's nature which the devil could claim, or from ...
— Love to the Uttermost - Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. • F. B. Meyer
... the children ready and send them to him and you stay on with your work?" whispered the tempter, and the suggestion sounded good to Austin. Again came the vision of his mother and her desire that he keep the children together. He pitied the poor little things to be left to the mercies of their careless father. He was fast ...
— The Hero of Hill House • Mable Hale
... become part of his being. How hard it is to give it up! His technique has become almost universally successful. If he has made L50,000 by it, why not go on and make half a million; if he has made a million, why not go on and make three? All that you have to do, says the subtle tempter, is to reproduce the process of success indefinitely. The riches and the powers of the world are to be had in increasing abundance by the mere exercise of qualities which, though they have been painfully acquired, have now become the very habit of pleasure. How dull life would seem ...
— Success (Second Edition) • Max Aitken Beaverbrook
... tempter of hell!" exclaimed Jesus and his eye shot forth a ray of light that the ...
— I.N.R.I. - A prisoner's Story of the Cross • Peter Rosegger
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