Temptation Quotes
The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It's the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect--but, nearly invariably, the stupidest.
We must pray constantly for His enabling grace to say no to temptation, of choosing to take all practical steps to avoid known areas of temptation and flee from those that surprise us.
The very first temptation in the history of mankind was the temptation to be discontent...that is exactly what discontent(ment ) is - a questioning of the goodness of God.
I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines
Clean and restock your car at the end of each trip. No matter how tired you are, resist the temptation to let that empty muffin bag wait until mañana. Tomorrow turns into next week, next month.
About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.
Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.
A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.
Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution?
Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.
But precisely this illusion that everything is "clear" is what is blinding us all. It is a serious temptation, and it is a subtle form of pride and worldly love of power and revenge.
I never wanted the temptation to imitate or emulate something that had been done beforehand.
If thou least fallen into sin through violent temptations, seek speedily for repentance for it, recovery out of it, and reformation from it.
Resist the temptation to compare yourself to others. This is crucial in order to be able to manifest whatever you want.
If death itself were to die, would it have a ghost, and would the ghost of death visit the dead in the guise of someone alive, if only to fright them from any temptation to return?
The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.
There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.
Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.
What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.
My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you'll see you had to be sharp onstage.
Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.
Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?
We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be.
O help me Father in heaven to overcome and resist temptation in every form or shape.
Money is emphasized in Scripture simply because our temptation to love it is inexplicably powerful.
Scripture doesn't promise that God will remove temptation, only that you'll be given strength to withstand it.
A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.
After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.
Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.
The temptation to add features to a program must be resisted as strongly as possible. This requires the dedication of a saint
Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.
... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.
For they who think they make an end of temptation by yeilding to it, only set themselves on fire the more.
The most common trait I have found in all successful people is that they have conquered the temptation to give up.