Temptation Quotes
we will never be tempted to live by the standards of other people or to be guided by someone else’s opinions if we know who we are
Being free means "being free for the other, " because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free
If I were to sit down and count them, how many of my prayers were tainted by the seduction of greed? None, simply because nothing of that sort is a prayer.
Do not sell your soul for a bucketful of pleasures and temptations. It’s God’s priceless gift to you.
The strongest Christian is unsafe among occasions to sin (519).
It is better to avoid the temptation than get entangled in the sin.
Money! Money's the curse of man, none greater.That's what wrecks cities, banishes men from homes, Tempts and deludes the most well-meaning soul, Pointing out the way to infamy and shame." - Creon
I have known the spirit of my soul through the trials and temptations.
If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something else responsible.
Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker.
Mind is greedy. When you sense the benefits with people who previously thought rubbish about you, the mind forgoes those thoughts and inclines toward those people only to gain optimal benefits.
There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage-in controlling something, period.
If you are facing some kind of temptation, remember that it is within your power to get the victory over it.
I knew how one climbing the mountain of worldly success can slip down into the river below without being conscious of the descent till he is already drowning.
The most powerful and courageous heroes I know are those who bite their tongues when justification, validation, temptation, or vengeance would have them strike with truthful, hurtful words.
Follow both: the call of the mountain of enlightenment and the temptation of the valley of experience. No mountain without valley, no valley without mountain.
Hope is a fire more ravenous than the flames of temptation. For if only a portion of it poisons your veins, it is enough to make you stand against ridiculous odds again and again and again.
Although I love elegant parties, dancing and dining and spending the night with a sweet woman in my arms, my life belongs to literature.
Her skin hummed with anticipation of Jaxon’s touch. She squeezed her thighs as her womb clenched. This could all go brilliantly or it could all go to hell.
Pamper no temptations! Once you are the driver on the steer of your life, choose to knock down every obstacle and challenge on your way to fulfillment.
Dismantle your friend to see how he behaves. If he smiles with a beautiful grin, then take him back, he's worthy to be called a friend.
This much is true: When you are about to effect the lives of hundreds of people, Satan will do everything he can to prevent it from happening. Often pride and anger are his best assassins.
You must know everything that God has forbidden you so as to be able to avoid it, for the one who does not recognize evil falls into it.
The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn't sin but wants to sin.
The final aim of any temptation is to bring a person back into the kingdom of darkness.
Doing without will wear on you until temptation is stronger than character, sometimes.
If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could?
Spiritual maturity is not defined by how well one applies Biblical principles to “suppress sin”.
. . . is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?
Just because a feeling is natural does not mean it should be indulged.
Trying to eliminate worldly temptations only makes our spiritual growth limited.
A small temptation can stop a great glory and turn great joy into a great sorrow
With Stefan, the line between good and evil, right and wrong, becomes increasingly blurred.
Whatever their bodies do affects their souls. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out...
