Temptation Quotes

Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us

Temptation turns you. It makes you into something you never dreamed, it presses you to give up everything you ever loved, it calls you to sell your soul for one, fleeting moment.

In truth, it requires not only a large intellect, but a large heart, to judge with becoming charity of the peculiar temptations of riches.

You know what, life is full of temptations

My temptation is emotional, and resisting will further my needed weight loss and strengthen my character. Furthermore, nothing tastes as good as thin feels.

Great success is a great temptation.

Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation.

Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation?

Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.

What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

Sometimes we have to behave indifferent towards people who proclaim their love to us, just to see if they are really different.

Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

Only strong characters can resist the temptation of superficial analysis.

And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else

ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.

Mature people must find their own ways to cope with their own temptations.

There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.

Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. And the results always illusory.

The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan.

...the temptation, which consisted of a single word written on the cemetary of the defeated: Sleep.

Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.

Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.

I often long to . . . give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation.

Sometimes the devil tempts me to believe in God.

I always loved Little Anthony and the Imperials. They were like the precursors of the Temptations. I loved their music.

The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.

Freedom and victory belong to those who remain true and strong despite temptation to be dishonest and weak.

I listen to a lot of old stuff like Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, and The Temptations.

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.

Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.

Which is scarier-- lust or temptation?

The people who need to overcome temptation to the highest degree have the hardest time doing it.

There's a great temptation to clean everything up and make everything more perfect. You have to know when to stop and stop doing it, or you might end up with something that sounds metronomic.

It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably.

Our response to temptation reveals the substance of our faith.

If you are going to be underestimated by people who speak more rapidly, the temptation is to speak slowly and strategically and outwit them.

Temptations are like tramps. Treat them kindly, and they will return bringing others with them. Temptations are never so dangerous as when they come to us in a religious garb.

I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation.

Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.

Faith in the atonement and intercession of Christ will keep us steadfast and immovable amid the temptations that press upon us in the church militant.

Between the demand to be clear,and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect.

Each temptation leaves us better or worse; neutrality is impossible.

We cannot say no to temptation without saying yes to something far better.

He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.

When temptations march monotonously in regiments, one waits for to pass.

I would urge my fellow conservatives to avoid the temptation to crow about it or take credit.

One of the ways [racism] pops up is when they turn a comic into a live-action movie and there's this temptation to make Asian characters white.