Temptation Quotes
I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.
The possibility of remedying imprudent actions is commonly an inducement to commit them.
One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense.
Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.
A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations.
I'd never say no to surgery in the future, because I feel like, as I get older, I'm going to face temptation more.
I think it's important never to look yourself up on Wikipedia. I think the temptation to correct any interesting factual errors would be too much.
I have switched on this modern laptop machine. And I have told myself that I must resist the temptation to start playing solitaire upon it.
Our office...subjects us to great burdens and labors, dangers and temptations, with little reward or gratitude from the world. But Christ himself will be our reward if we labor faithfully.
Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter. As you press for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the instruments of love.
Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.
If an unexpected temptation comes, don't blame the one through whom it came, but seek out the reason. Thus you will find correction for your soul.
The film The Last Temptation of Christ, no matter what its defenders say, was a slap in the face to Christians everywhere.
Jesus's first temptation was to be relevant: to turn stones into bread. Oh, how often I wished I could do that!
I try to keep in shape and I always have to check myself. Whenever I binge eat, sweets are the one temptation.
...his lips were pure temptation, soft, bitable, sensual in a way only a man's mouth could be.
So much depends, therefore, upon our maintaining gospel perspective in the midst of ordinariness, the pressures of temptation, tribulation, deprivation, and the cares of the world.
Absolutely no bedwetting liberals or race warlords were harmed or mistreated in the creation of this web page - though the temptation was certainly very tough to resist.
If you're a so-called minority writer, the temptation is to write for the majority... I refuse to do that.
The biggest temptation I believe is to feel comfortable, to feel like you've worked through all of that here on Earth, and are satisfied with this life.
I think when you're trying to produce a relationship on screen that doesn't actually exist, perhaps sometimes there's a temptation to look at each other more, to touch each other more...
Most humans feel the transcendent temptation, the emotional drive to festoon the universe with large-scale meaning.
The temptation to use mathematics is irresistible for economists. It appears to convey the appropriate air of scientific authority and precision to economists' musings.
Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!
O that one unguarded moment! / Were it mine to live again, / All the strength of its temptation / Would appeal to me in vain.
artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.
When you fly from temptation, don't leave a forwarding address. Where there's smoke there's fire.
One of the more serious temptations which stifles boldness and zeal is a defeatism, which turns us into querulous and disillusioned pessimists, sourpusses.
The Holy Ghost is the only One who can detect the temptations of Satan, neither our common sense nor our human wisdom can detect them as temptations.
Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.
Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim - not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good.
The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them.
When the tempter me pursueth With the sins of all my youth, And half damns me with untruth, Sweet Spirit, comfort me!
