Temptation Quotes
The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.
The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful manner; so that we are but little aware of them and less able to withstand them.
Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and their ways nor pity and prayer for their deliverance.
PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.
...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.
What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.
Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.
Retarget your money. When your money comes in, you need to have already targeted where you are going to invest or doodad temptation will set in.
No one is so good that he is immune from temptation. We will never be entirely free from it. . . . There is no order so holy, no place so secret where there will be no temptation.
One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?
As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
The danger inherent in all force grows stronger when it is likely to gain success, for then it becomes temptation.
The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.
As lovers of truth, we want to be close to it. Sometimes - evil thought, evil temptation - we want to be close to it by misleading others about its presence.
Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality.
Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite of all temptations or menaces.
Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.
Have you been tormented with fears and doubts? Bombarded with temptation to sin? Try praising the Lord, and watch Satan flee.
There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.
If you will study the scriptures diligently, your power to avoid temptation and to receive direction of the Holy Ghost in all you do will be increased.
I don't take drugs nor drink since 2000 and I must say that I don't think about it anymore, although like every person that was addicted and has money - I know that this can lead to temptation.
Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.
Maintaining the relationship. But there's also physical temptation and being on the same spiritual level, which can be difficult.
Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.
If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?
Say not that thou hast royal blood in thy veins; say not that thou art born of God if thou canst not prove thy pedigree by daring to be holy!
There’s an old Chinese saying that I just love, and I believe it is so true. It goes like this: ‘The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.’
When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.
Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad.
There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings