Temptation Quotes
Not a sorrow, not a burden, not a temptation, not a bereavement, not a disappointment, not a care, not a groan or tear, but has its antidote in God's rich and inexhaustible resources.
Afflictions, like bills and pikes, make a terrible show when they cannot reach us; but the temptations of prosperity, like unseen bullets, wound and kill us before they are discerned.
It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.
When temptation comes your way, name that boastful, deceitful giant “Goliath!” and do with it as David did to the Philistine of Gath.
If I were asked to think up a new name for temptation, I should recommend the word 'doorknob', because what are these protuberances put on doors for if not to tempt us.
For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October.
Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it-the quality of temptation.
I have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies.
In times of temptation, of sorrow, of peace and of blessing, let us pray always, both alone and with our families.
As ministers our greatest temptation is toward too many words. They weaken our faith and make us lukewarm. But silence is a sacred discipline, a guard of the Holy Spirit.
It seems as if the more youthful and impressible streams can hardly resist the numerous invitations and temptations to leave theirnative beds and run down their neighbors' channels.
Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead.
There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.
The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To his extreme annoyance, tempted him.
When reflection is thereby demystified, I believe that the temptation to view human knowledge as different in kind from animal knowledge is undermined.
Servitude, in many cases, is not forced upon by the masters, but a temptation of the servants.
Power was my weakness and my temptation. And Miguel Sano is very tempting. But he is not weak. He is very, very strong.
We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.
I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.
When one's function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have spoken, nothing has been said.
It is ill changing the creed to meet each rising temptation. The soul is truer than it seems, and refuses to be trifled with.
A total commitment to anxiously serve the Lord and others is the surest way to overcome temptations of the adversary.
Fish is meant to tempt as well as nourish, and everything that lives in water is seductive.
So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation.
There is no point in praying for victory over temptation if we are not willing to make a commitment to say no to it.
Resist the temptation to ascribe motive, because you really don't know - and it gets in the way of being able to reach a consensus on things that matter to you and to many other people.
Who, under pressing temptations to lie, adheres to truth, nor to the profane betrays aught of a sacred trust, is near the summit of wisdom and virtue.
At GQ, there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.
If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
You know, there's that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound - well, to give yourself a bit of mystery.
Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.
The Lord is well aware of our mortality. He knows our weaknesses. He understands the challenges of our everyday lives. He has great empathy for the temptations of earthly appetites and passions.
Nephi taught that by clinging to the word of God, as though it be a handrail, we would be able to avoid temptations and not lose our way in darkness. Thus, we would remain on the narrow path.
If we didn't have to stand against temptation, we'd never know our own spiritual strength.
The uncut sheets of colored glass are really seductive, awesome, and unarguably lovely things. Naturally, the temptation to cut and damage all that pristine beauty is too much for me to resist.
For any filmmaker who has just released a film and who is experiencing some measure of success, the temptation can be great to respond to every screening request that comes in.
There is a great temptation with songs, melodies and lyrics to overcomplicate them but in fact, you find that the most enduring melodies are often the simplest.
God is good but not safe, and the urge for safe art is often a worldly temptation away from goodness.
He was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to be mastered.