Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution. Votes: 6
Edwin Louis ColeBy persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Votes: 4
Oscar WildeGod is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers. Votes: 4
William PennMarriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. Votes: 4
George Bernard ShawThe last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. Votes: 4
T. S. EliotMost people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. Votes: 4
Robert OrbenTemptation is God's magnifying glass; it shows us how much work he has left to do in our lives. Votes: 4
Erwin W. LutzerThe only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation. Votes: 4
Oscar WildeTemptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity. Votes: 3
Edwin Hubbel ChapinTemptation is necessary to make us realize that we are nothing in ourselves. Votes: 3
Josemaria EscrivaTemptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious Votes: 3
John OwenThat's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it. Votes: 3
Kathy Griffinwe've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business ... Votes: 3
Margaret DelandTemptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker. Votes: 3
Toba BetaTemptation is impossible for me to resist Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description. Votes: 3
Tom SizemoreTemptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. Votes: 3
William TaylorVictorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes. Votes: 2
E. Stanley JonesThese days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes. Votes: 2
Jim SensenbrennerWith Stefan, the line between good and evil, right and wrong, becomes increasingly blurred. Votes: 1
Melika Dannese Lux...there's one thing you'll never be delivered from. It's a ten-letter word called temptation! Votes: 1
Ty AdamsThe hardest thing about getting what you want is knowing what to do with it. Votes: 1
Patrick HennesseyWhat's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them? Votes: 1
P. G. WodehouseThere is power in controlling something that can do so much damage-in controlling something, period. Votes: 1
Veronica RothIt is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth. Votes: 1
Michael Bassey JohnsonIf heaven was hot and hell was chilly, tell me, why would you go to heaven? Votes: 1
Michael Bassey JohnsonA relationship is like being in a forest, where snakes lurk awaiting the chance to entice. Votes: 1
Anthony LiccioneThe final aim of any temptation is to bring a person back into the kingdom of darkness. Votes: 1
Sunday AdelajaPerhaps I might have resisted a great temptation, but the little ones would have pulled me down Votes: 1
Edith WhartonBut there was only so much temptation a man could resist without losing all respect for himself. Votes: 1
Michael Swanwick. . . is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name? Votes: 1
Donna TarttIf you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could? Votes: 1
Sara SheridanMy head spins as I glance away, refusing to get sucked back into his gaze when so much is at risk. Votes: 1
Emily GiffinHard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation. Votes: 0
Christian Nestell BoveeHoliness is not freedom from temptation, but power to overcome temptation. Votes: 0
G. Campbell MorganNever resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawWhen fleeing the scene of temptation, do not leave a forwarding address. Votes: 0
Jeffrey R. HollandThere can be no faith without doubt. No strength without temptation. (Rafael) Votes: 0
Sherrilyn KenyonThe realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation. Votes: 0
Francois FenelonChoices are exhibited through the notions of free will,temptation challenges them. Votes: 0
Crimson "C.L. Williams"There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. Votes: 0
Mark TwainCancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic. Votes: 0
Christopher HitchensWith sin comes fatigue. With repentance comes temptation. With beatification comes ugliness." Votes: 0
BauvardSafe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead. Votes: 0
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThose who operate through the Holy Spirit are more equipped to resist temptation. Votes: 0
Monica JohnsonThose who operate through the Holy Spirit are more equipped to resist temptation. Votes: 0
Monica Mcgowan JohnsonThere is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity. Votes: 0
Andy HargreavesOne learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers. Votes: 0
James Russell LowellNever complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses. Votes: 0
Brian TracyIf you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonWe're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives. Votes: 0
Smokey RobinsonOur wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others. Votes: 0
Charles Caleb Colton...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish. Votes: 0
Piers AnthonyA priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural. Votes: 0
Park Chan-wookI have the financial morals of a goldfish, I can resist everything but temptation. Votes: 0
Ruth St. DenisThe virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument. Votes: 0
Madeleine de ScuderyAbstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceI have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation. Votes: 0
Edna O'BrienResist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance. Votes: 0
Stanley SchmidtWe find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. Votes: 0
William HazlittYou oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd. Votes: 0
Anthony HopeChrist wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering. Votes: 0
Alexander MacLarenThe American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry. Votes: 0
Henry A. KissingerTALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose. Votes: 0
Ambrose BiercePreachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified. Votes: 0
R. C. SproulGod does not make our choices easier because temptation is his character development curriculum. Votes: 0
Erwin W. LutzerThere has always been discouragement, negativism, and temptation in the world because of Lucifer. Votes: 0
Joseph B. WirthlinWe can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary. Votes: 0
Samuel RichardsonMost dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareIf you don't want temptation to follow you, don't act as if you are interested. Votes: 0
Richard L. EvansThe Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction. Votes: 0
AristotleMany a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep. Votes: 0
Matthew HenryThere is always a temptation for governments: see a problem and announce a quick fix. Votes: 0
Charles KennedyWhat is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard. Votes: 0
Barbara HamblyAbout the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation. Votes: 0
Tom WilsonIf we didn't have to stand against temptation, we'd never know our own spiritual strength. Votes: 0
Joyce MeyerI never wanted the temptation to imitate or emulate something that had been done beforehand. Votes: 0
Tyler HoechlinAs for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama. Votes: 0
Tom PerrottaWhen you fly from temptation, don't leave a forwarding address. Where there's smoke there's fire. Votes: 0
PlautusThe greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority. Votes: 0
Stephen BatchelorNo man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation. Votes: 0
H. L. MenckenThere is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues. Votes: 0
Thomas MertonMoney is emphasized in Scripture simply because our temptation to love it is inexplicably powerful. Votes: 0
Erwin W. LutzerWhere there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation. Votes: 0
Thomas PaineWhen you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation. Votes: 0
Elizabeth KostovaO help me Father in heaven to overcome and resist temptation in every form or shape. Votes: 0
Emmeline B. WellsWhen there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiIt is too late if we wait until the moment of temptation before making our decision. Votes: 0
Nathan Eldon TannerAvoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking. Votes: 0
Francis CrickI have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career. Votes: 0
DeForest KelleyI have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation. Votes: 0
Max LernerSoul's Castle fell at one blast of temptation, But many a worm had pierced the foundation. Votes: 0
William AllinghamThere is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer. Votes: 0
Henry Ward BeecherLove is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation. Votes: 0
Jeanette WintersonThere is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. Votes: 0
James Branch CabellIgnorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice. Votes: 0
Ann Radcliffe...the temptation, which consisted of a single word written on the cemetary of the defeated: Sleep. Votes: 0
Arthur KoestlerWhen I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers. Votes: 0
Gerald JampolskyIs it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution? Votes: 0
Saint Francis de SalesThat was my nature - going from temptation after temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed. Votes: 0
Anne RiceI would urge my fellow conservatives to avoid the temptation to crow about it or take credit. Votes: 0
Gary BauerEver notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty. Votes: 0
Earl WilsonServitude, in many cases, is not forced upon by the masters, but a temptation of the servants. Votes: 0
Indro Montanelli...his lips were pure temptation, soft, bitable, sensual in a way only a man's mouth could be. Votes: 0
Nalini SinghThe worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval. Votes: 0
Thomas HarrisThe people who need to overcome temptation to the highest degree have the hardest time doing it. Votes: 0
Dan ArielyThe best way to resist temptation is to avoid it. Prevention is far, far better than repentance. Votes: 0
Spencer W. KimballTry to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation. Votes: 0
Arthur MillerIt is no credit to me to do right. I am never under any temptation to do wrong! Votes: 0
Grover ClevelandI often long to . . . give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellI have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies. Votes: 0
Harry BrowneCredit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil. Votes: 0
Solomon NorthupThe temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny. Votes: 0
Gelett BurgessI never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawHe's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life. Votes: 1 Robert Redford
There are temptations around you all the time. The trick is to work your way through anxiety or your tiredness or whatever, and not let yourself get so hungry that you're going and stopping for the burgers, and you don't view it as reward. You're doing better for yourself is eating better food. Votes: 1 Lisa Ann Walter
Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances. Votes: 1 Orlando Aloysius Battista
In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of service; a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself. Votes: 1 Vincent Nichols
Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation? Votes: 2 Vicesimus Knox
In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of service; a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself. Votes: 1 Vincent Nichols