Temptation Quotes
The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.
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.
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.
Those who operate through the Holy Spirit are more equipped to resist temptation.
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.
Obviously, there's the temptation to sit back and smile, .. But there's so much at stake, we have to do our due diligence.
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.
In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me.
Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
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.
By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world.
We should have a strong president. Strong enough to resist the temptation of taking power that a president shouldn't have.
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.
An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones.
The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low.
For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.
Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.
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.
Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify Your truth.
It is a temptation to exploit one's technique because an audience is easily reached this way, but they cannot be moved by technique alone and to move an audience is the role of dance as an art.
The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.
Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.
Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.
Sooner or later every gardener must face the fact that certain things are going to die on him. It is a temptation to be anthropomorphic about plants, to suspect that they do it to annoy.
Give me, instead of beauty's bust, A tender heart, a loyal mind, Which with temptation I could trust, Yet never linked with error find.
A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.