Temptation Quotes
Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.
A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted-the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.
When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust.
He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.
Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.
For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.
Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.
Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.
One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.
The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop or undermine, and destroy.
The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low.
No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.
Temptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious
The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.
The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.
He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed Not incorruptible of faith, not proof Against temptation.
Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.
Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.
The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood.
Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves.
I seemed like a baby bird keeping its truly innocent animal lusts hidden under its wing. I was being tempted, not by the desire of possession, but simply by unadorned temptation itself.
When you really put your heart and soul into something, the temptation is to try to be in control of circumstances, however you can, and looking and seeing how people are responding.
I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.
Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.
Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.
Those who operate through the Holy Spirit are more equipped to resist temptation.
If we don't want temptation to follow us, we shouldn't act as if we are interested. No one ever fell over a precipice who never went near one.
Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children.
We should have a strong president. Strong enough to resist the temptation of taking power that a president shouldn't have.
By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world.
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me.
I hate being moved. I hate that man who came in. So self-righteous, so cruel. He made fun of me, that's why I cried. You never did that. You led me into temptation by your - politeness.
