Temptation Quotes
No temptation, no pressure, no enticing can overcome us unless we allow such. If we make the wrong choice, we have no one to blame but ourselves.
To pray against temptation, and yet rush into occasions, is to thrust your fingers into the fire, and then pray they might not be burnt.
I wanted to. I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled. Thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.
If I’ve already thought through a situation and have a response prepared ahead of time in the event temptation rears its ugly head, it is that much easier to resist.
He has resisted Temptation for Centuries, A stone cold warrior whose frozen heart refuses to thaw- Until Her.
We should be on our guard against the temptation to argue directly from skill to capacity, and to assume when a man displays skill in some feat, his capacity is therefore considerable.
As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.
Temptation is impossible for me to resist Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description.
The possibility to go on indefinitely with our lives may become a reality and it will present us with a temptation.
Grow a garden, give food away, resist the temptation to give into hate, change it up and try peacemaking for once, love your neighbor, love your enemy.
The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
Soul's Castle fell at one blast of temptation, But many a worm had pierced the foundation.
My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.
A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.
Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.
The work that leads to a doctor's degree is a constant temptation to sacrifice one's growth as a man to one's growth as a specialist.
Until we are renewed in the spirit of our mind and illumined in every part, our very virtues are but taught practices grafted upon a corrupt bottom
But a good wife—a good unworldly woman—may really help a man, and keep him more independent.
When Jesus was tempted, He didn’t debate the devil. He quoted Scripture: “It is written . . . It is written . . . It is written” (Matthew 4:4–10 NKJV). And each time the devil was defeated.
We can’t flee from temptation in our own strength—but God will give us the strength we need, if we’ll only seek it. A friend of mine says, “When the devil knocks, I just send Jesus to the door!
Everyone has temptations but some folks entertain them . . .Get your eyes off the temptation and onto Christ!
Every stage of life has its own temptations and dangers, and Satan will do all he can to exploit them . . .the time to prepare is now, not when it arrives.
Be very sure that you do not deliberately place yourself in a position to be tempted.
Be sure that Satan will tempt you at your weak point, not the strong.
Many Christians give in to various temptations through peer pressure and find themselves surrendering to worldly passions, justifying pleasures the world offers.
Temptation is not a sin. It is the yielding that is sin. All temptation is from the devil.
Only a strong faith—a faith based on God’s Word—will protect us from temptation and doubt.
Temptation: Recognize it for what it is, and then reject it—immediately and without compromise.
If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.It is in the close similarity between good and evil, right and wrong, that the danger lies.
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down provided it is the right temptation put in the right spot.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't.
Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life.
When you begin to pursue your promised land, you get a lot of prohibitions and temptations
If you give in to temptation, you may have a moment of enjoyment, but then you'll have a lifetime of regrets.
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride. They have yielded to the perennial temptation.
The promise of power wasn't enough, he thought. So now she tempts me with knowledge.
Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day, " Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies.
I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
I miss you, ” is how she entices you.“I want you, ” is how she charms you.“I need you, ” is how she entraps you.“I love you, ” is how she imprisons you.
It’s always the ones we’re not supposed to have who are the most irresistible.