Temptation Quotes

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger.

A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.

Remember sometimes just the rush of having a crush is a temptation, even if it is inappropriate, but beware of playing with fire, you will get burned.

Heed not Mephistopheles, my children, lest you suffer eternal damnation. When he whispers in your ear, turn away your head and hearken instead to the angel on your shoulder.

That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it.

I have one reason why you should walk away from that temptation right now. One reason: God. Is. Better.

Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.

After every temptation you will be either closer to God or further from Him.

Do today's duty, fight to-day's temptation; and do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things which you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.

Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride.

Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?

There is a temptation for the writer or the teacher of Church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy or faith promoting or not. Some things that are true are not very useful.

I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives.

Faith in Christ is able to endure doubts-it's able to endure temptations-bec ause it faces them, not because it pretends they're not there.

Temptation out of reach does you no good.

If the 'self-life' is supreme, Satan does not have to be invited in. The lines are already set for the 'electric' current to flow. Satan is master of ceremonies, though he be apparently non-existent.

Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Without prayer it is impossible to resist temptations and to keep the commandments.

There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.

Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.

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

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.

Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.

There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.

An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company.

The essence of temptation is the invitation to live independently of God.

It is a sin when I place myself deliberately in the place of temptation… either because I enjoy the prospect or because I’m not determined enough in my desire to overcome it.

The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.

The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority.

The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.

You have a heritage honor it. You have posses a testimony share it. You will face temptations withstand it. You know the truth live it.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do in a pressure situation is to allow the tension to persist. The temptation is to make a decision, any decision, even if it is an inferior choice.

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

Mixing with groups of people can be enjoyed, it is pleasing in a way that cannot be explained other than the temptation to become closer to one or the other.

I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame And every time I pass that way I always hear my name

There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.

I am overwhelmed by an irresistible temptation to do my climb by moonlight and unroped. This is contrary to all my rock climbing teaching & does not mean poor training, but only a strong-headedness.

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.

His Majesty [the Lord] . . . rewards great services with trials, and there can be no better reward, for out of trials springs love for God.

What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.

Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers.

If you decide that you cannot beat a temptation, what you are really doing is giving yourself permission to be irresponsible.

So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did.