Quotes about Temptation

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. Votes: 6

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution. Votes: 6

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you. Votes: 6

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction Votes: 6

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. Votes: 5

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. Votes: 5

Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong. Votes: 5

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. Votes: 5

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in. Votes: 5

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot. Votes: 5

It is easier to stay out than get out. Votes: 4

Temptation is the voice of reason without its clothes on. Votes: 4

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself. Votes: 4

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Votes: 4

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back. Votes: 4

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers. Votes: 4

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. Votes: 4

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. Votes: 4

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. Votes: 4

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation. Votes: 4

Temptation is God's magnifying glass; it shows us how much work he has left to do in our lives. Votes: 4

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. Votes: 4

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. Votes: 4

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction. Votes: 4

There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury; and, if he is overcome, you share his guilt. Votes: 4

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of. Votes: 4

If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the fruit from the garden! In appearance it may glisten to the eye; but the perishable pleasure of possession quickly avenges the curse of curiosity. Votes: 4

Do not grieve over the temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us first to be tempted by the opposite vice. Therefore, look upon every temptation as an invitation to grow in a particular virtue and a promise by God that you will be successful, if only you stand fast. Votes: 4

Temptation to behave is terrible. Votes: 3

Temptation: the fiend at my elbow. Votes: 3

Temptation hath a music for all ears. Votes: 3

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse. Votes: 3

Temptation out of reach does you no good. Votes: 3

Temptation provokes me to look upward to God. Votes: 3

Temptation always starts in your mind, not in circumstances. Votes: 3

Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray. Votes: 3

Temptation is a test of your relationship, not your self-control. Votes: 3

Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity. Votes: 3

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden. Votes: 3

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body. Votes: 3

Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin. Votes: 3

Temptation is a dress rehearsal for a karmic experience of negativity. Votes: 3

Temptation is not a sin; it is a call to battle. Votes: 3

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart. Votes: 3

Temptation does not make the sin, it lies ready in the heart. Votes: 3

Temptation is a strong weapon that Satan uses against the children of God Votes: 3

Temptation is necessary to make us realize that we are nothing in ourselves. Votes: 3

Temptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious Votes: 3

we've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business ... Votes: 3

That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it. Votes: 3

Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker. Votes: 3

Tomorrow's character is made out of today's thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin does not. Votes: 3

Temptation is impossible for me to resist Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description. Votes: 3

Temptation is impossible for me to resist... Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description. Votes: 3

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. Votes: 3

He has resisted Temptation for Centuries, A stone cold warrior whose frozen heart refuses to thaw- Until Her.. Votes: 3

Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't. Votes: 3

Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality. Votes: 3

I wish to resist the temptation to kiss...By super magic animals (Song: The Temptation)A visual poem about unfulfilled love... Votes: 3

Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb. Votes: 3

The film The Last Temptation of Christ, no matter what its defenders say, was a slap in the face to Christians everywhere. Votes: 3

Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one. Votes: 3

Bait is made to look SO good you OVERlook the trap. Whether scratched or scarred you ALWAYS get hurt giving in to Temptation. Votes: 3

Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith. Votes: 3

For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation. Votes: 3

The wind cannot overturn a mountain. Temptation cannot touch the man Who is awake, strong and humble, Who masters hiself and minds the law. Votes: 3

Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim - not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Temptation turns you. It makes you into something you never dreamed, it presses you to give up everything you ever loved, it calls you to sell your soul for one, fleeting moment. Votes: 3

The opposite of love? Vice. Temptation. The negative influences that we have. The bad energy that comes around us and makes us do certain things. To me, it's always been a war between the two. Votes: 3

Temptation and testing (or a trial) are two sides of the same coin. Satan uses an occasion or a person to tempt us to fall; God uses the same to try us and make us stronger. Votes: 3

I can resist everything except temptation. Votes: 2

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness. Votes: 2

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again. Votes: 2

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it. Votes: 2

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes. Votes: 2

These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes. Votes: 2

So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force. Votes: 2

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. Votes: 2

Often the work of the Lord itself may be a temptation to keep us from that communion with Him which is so essential to the benefit of our own souls. Votes: 2

Obedience brings peace in decision making. If we have firmly made up our minds to follow the commandments, we will not have to redecide which path to take when temptation comes our way. Votes: 2

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge. Votes: 2

Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going. Votes: 2

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery. Votes: 2

Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur. Votes: 2

Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home. Votes: 2

Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis. Votes: 2

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward. Votes: 2

God's purpose in creation was to let us prove ourselves. The plan was explained to us in the spirit world before we were born. We were valiant enough there to qualify for the opportunity to choose against temptation here to prepare for eternal life, the greatest of all the gifts of God. Votes: 2

Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope. Votes: 2

There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But that's not how I want to do things anymore. I'm thinking about how can I trust God more. How can I surrender more? How can I bring him more glory? It's a fight. But it's one I'm going to keep fighting. Votes: 2

dangerous chemistry Votes: 1

Choices enable temptation. Votes: 1

Get thee behind me, Satan! Votes: 1

Even paradise had its serpent. Votes: 1

Words are the great temptation. Votes: 1

Saintliness is also a temptation. Votes: 1

I can resist anything except temptation. Votes: 1

God tests, but he does not tempt. Votes: 1

Power was my weakness and my temptation. Votes: 1

When women go wrong, men go right after them. Votes: 1

Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare. Votes: 1

Success cannot resist the temptation of consistency and persistence. Votes: 1

I wonder if pain comes from surrendering or resisting? Votes: 1

Many eat that on earth that they digest in hell. Votes: 1

Believe me...Nothing is bad, just prove it as right Votes: 1

believe me...Nothing is bad, just proove it as right Votes: 1

Our response to temptation reveals the substance of our faith. Votes: 1

We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume. Votes: 1

Each temptation leaves us better or worse; neutrality is impossible. Votes: 1

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces. Votes: 1

Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you. Votes: 1

Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable? Votes: 1

Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery? Votes: 1

Lead me not into temptation. I can find the way myself. Votes: 1

Believe me...Nothing is bad or wrong , just prove it as right Votes: 1

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. Votes: 1

When you 'flee' from Potiphar's wife, she starts giving you cold shoulders. Votes: 1

What Saint has ever won his crown without first contending for it? Votes: 1

The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance. Votes: 1

When a person wants nothing, it's evil to tempt them with something. Votes: 1

Just because a feeling is natural does not mean it should be indulged. Votes: 1

I have known the spirit of my soul through the trials and temptations. Votes: 1

There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction. Votes: 1

And what if you try to kill me? Or worse: to kiss me? Votes: 1

Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep. Votes: 1

It is better to avoid the temptation than get entangled in the sin. Votes: 1

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Votes: 1

God can make good use of all that happens, but the loss is real. Votes: 1

With Stefan, the line between good and evil, right and wrong, becomes increasingly blurred. Votes: 1

...there's one thing you'll never be delivered from. It's a ten-letter word called temptation! Votes: 1

The hardest thing about getting what you want is knowing what to do with it. Votes: 1

What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them? Votes: 1

I can resist anything except temptation." Ren, main character in Sherrilyn Kenyon's novel Time Untime. Votes: 1

There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage-in controlling something, period. Votes: 1

It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth. Votes: 1

If heaven was hot and hell was chilly, tell me, why would you go to heaven? Votes: 1

A relationship is like being in a forest, where snakes lurk awaiting the chance to entice. Votes: 1

. . . is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name? Votes: 1

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked. Votes: 1

Perhaps I might have resisted a great temptation, but the little ones would have pulled me down Votes: 1

The final aim of any temptation is to bring a person back into the kingdom of darkness. Votes: 1

But there was only so much temptation a man could resist without losing all respect for himself. Votes: 1

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? Votes: 1

If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could? Votes: 1

... the devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for ... Votes: 1

My head spins as I glance away, refusing to get sucked back into his gaze when so much is at risk. Votes: 1

If you are facing some kind of temptation, remember that it is within your power to get the victory over it. Votes: 1

Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants. Votes: 1

What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night! Votes: 1

Sexual temptations are lurking around every corner in our lives today! Resisting the temptation to gratify the flesh is a full-time job. Votes: 1

Sometimes we have to behave indifferent towards people who proclaim their love to us, just to see if they are really different. Votes: 1

Pray that temptation may not come upon you, but when it does come, accept it as something not alien but your own. Votes: 1

Being around her now was nine parts bliss and one part torment. And he wanted it to last as long as possible. Votes: 1

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. Votes: 1

Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day," Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies. Votes: 1

I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. Votes: 1

. . .what's important is something other than I'm proven to be right. What's important is truth and hope and, and above all these, love. Votes: 1

The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn't sin but wants to sin. Votes: 1

The temptation to take the precious things we have apart to see how they work must be resisted for they never fit together again. Votes: 1

You never know what you're made of until temptation comes knocking. The only temptation I've given in to is to have one more slice. Votes: 1

If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something else responsible. Votes: 1

I can smell her perfume, something flowery, too strong in this enclosed darkness. I wonder if this is temptation. If so, I am stone. Votes: 1

Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify Your truth. Votes: 1

Don't judge too harshly, for if your weaknesses were to be placed under your footsteps, most likely you would stumble and fall as well. Votes: 1

Although I love elegant parties, dancing and dining and spending the night with a sweet woman in my arms, my life belongs to literature. Votes: 1

Oh no, no," said the little fly; "to ask me is in vain,For who goes up your winding stair can ne'er come down again. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul. Votes: 1

Follow both: the call of the mountain of enlightenment and the temptation of the valley of experience. No mountain without valley, no valley without mountain. Votes: 1

Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free Votes: 1

Despite the weight of the world on my shoulders, the temptation to stop and smell the supernatural roses tugged on my sleeves a time or two. Votes: 1

Dismantle your friend to see how he behaves. If he smiles with a beautiful grin, then take him back, he's worthy to be called a friend. Votes: 1

Pamper no temptations! Once you are the driver on the steer of your life, choose to knock down every obstacle and challenge on your way to fulfillment. Votes: 1

I knew how one climbing the mountain of worldly success can slip down into the river below without being conscious of the descent till he is already drowning. Votes: 1

We may feel that a particular habit 'isn't too bad,'but continually giving in to that habit weakens our wills against the onslaughts of temptation from other directions. Votes: 1

People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way to their evil drives. Votes: 1

Like a drop of ink in water, the urge rushed to the surface and then slowly spread out and thinned until I was made slightly darker by it. Votes: 1

I should have shouted "No" and left him. "But at least" said Satan in the deeps of my mind, "know what the temptation is before you do anything hastily. Votes: 1

God invites while the devil pressures and shoves and bullies. Realize who holds the actual power before you react. You are greater than Satan; God is greater than all. Votes: 1

...I know that if you ask me to jump I will say how high. So I will stay away from you and hope that you never ever say jump. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Your level is above the reach of the devil... Keep it in mind; as long as you are in the light of God, you bind him (the devil) tight! Votes: 1

Even in cases where most people are doing the right thing, talking about the minority who are doing the wrong thing can encourage people to give in to temptation. Votes: 1

I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin. Votes: 1

Love may be able to force you into precarious situations, it may lead you into double-edged bonfires and you don't smell the smoke, you only see the temptation of a perfume. Votes: 1

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride. They have yielded to the perennial temptation. Votes: 1

I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless. Votes: 1

...but with each step I took I could feel it; like an itch under the skin, I was only ever aware of it enough to know that it could never be satisfied. Votes: 1

I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin. Votes: 1

Whatever their bodies do affects their souls. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out... Votes: 1

When Satan tempted Adam, he was disguised as a serpent; when Satan tempted Jesus, he was not disguised. As we approach the End of the Age, Satan will gradually unmask himself. Matthew 24 and Revelation 13 Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

This much is true: When you are about to effect the lives of hundreds of people, Satan will do everything he can to prevent it from happening. Often pride and anger are his best assassins. Votes: 1

The debris of her married life was enough to sever the tie between reality and dreams, the fine line between desire and temptation. Where did she draw the line? When did she admit defeat and surrender? Votes: 1

Hope is a fire more ravenous than the flames of temptation. For if only a portion of it poisons your veins, it is enough to make you stand against ridiculous odds again and again and again. Votes: 1

He whirled in the water and grinned at me. Damn, he was a handsome bastard. I realized he was half-naked. Blue swirls of tattoos painted his chest. When God made that chest, he did to tempt women. Votes: 1

Whether or not I protect the weeds isn't a matter of just recognizing the weed for what it is, but possessing the conviction to grab hold of the roots and yank like my life depends on it. Votes: 1

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us. Votes: 1

There are many roads in this world that will guide you to pleasurable, fun, and exciting destinations that do not end in any form of lasting happiness. So before you step on an enticing path, figure out where it leads. Votes: 1

You see, I know you, Violet. You've tormented me in my dreams with your body too many times to count. Now you're here in the flesh, with your ripe curves and innocent eyes, an angel hidden in the body of a temptress. Votes: 1

Mma Ramotswe sighed. 'We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.'That is true,' said Mma Potokwane sadly. 'There are many temptations in this life, but cake is probably one of the biggest of them. Votes: 1

Fear is the devil's most powerful tool because he can't always convince a good man to do wrong, but he can paralyze his will with fright, keeping a good man from doing what is right. It eventually results in the same end. Votes: 1

Whenever i see someone fighting me for no reason, I'm always highly impressed that God has instigated his anger against me, just as he did to pharoah against the Israelites, so as to cast me away into my promise land of fulfilment. Votes: 1

They may take you for a fool, promise to shower you with the world, use their canny devastating tongue to manipulate and dominate your mind, but its better to put them bulshit people at arms length rather than falling into the arms of infidelity. Votes: 1

We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because he was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means. Votes: 1

Jesus does not impose intolerable restrictions on his disciples, he does not forbid them to look at anything, but bids them look on him. If they do that he knows that their gaze will always be pure, even when they look upon a woman. Votes: 1

But the guarding of our desires is more than fighting a rear-guard defensive action against temptations from the world, the flesh, and the devil. We must take the offensive. Paul directs us to set our hearts on things above, that is, on spiritual values (Colossians 3:1). Votes: 1

Take care of your soul; it will never lose its tournament if Jesus is the coach of your life. He will substitute your sins for righteousness and you will not be tempted to suffer a penalty for defeat! You are a winner, not a loser! Votes: 1

It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed around these chances! That was my nature - going from temptation to temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed. Votes: 1

In other words Jesus went into the desert to confront His enemy and throw down the gauntlet. He would prove Himself to be the legitimate shepherd of Israel by overcoming the temptations that had undone all of Israel's previous kings, including His mighty ancestor, King David. Votes: 1

In moments of unmet desire, heartbreak, or grief, Satan sends a poisonous arrow of doubt straight at your heart. This was his plan with Eve. He persuaded her to think God was "holding out on her" and that she would be better off not listening to Him. Votes: 1

It's okay. I understand that you're tempted and know you shouldn't grab the apple, and when you did you wanted to drop it. But I'm not good at resisting temptation. I'd rather eat the fucking thing, and enjoy it, even if I end up in hell.' Votes: 1

I once faced a temptation that was so persistent and so overwhelming that I literally believed my whole world would go dark if I refused to give in to it," he said. "All I could do was scream to the Holy Spirit to keep me from it. Votes: 1

Temptation turns you. It makes you into something you never dreamed, it presses you to give up everything you ever loved, it calls you to sell your soul for one, fleeting moment.[..] It makes you ache...you'll make any promise,swear any oath. For one...perfect...unsoiled taste Votes: 1

No matter how many sins you make or how slow you travel back toward God's valley, you are still way ahead of a person who never made a mistake and doesn't know what it is like to climb out of a pit of shame and rise above their temptations. Votes: 1

The devil can get you through your flesh. He knows the button to press on your flesh and have a way into your mind. The flesh becomes a transport medium for evil things if not killed for God. If Christ makes a home in your mind, satan can't get there. Votes: 1

It is better to stay single and wait for the one that makes sense then to marry someone that makes absolutely no sense. The moment you settle is when the one person that makes all the sense in the world shows up and Satan sits back and enjoys your spiritual meltdown. Votes: 1

It is not the best for us to lay embago on the industries that produce temptations. What we need to do is to compete, overcome and dominate the market with the products of our endurance. No battles we face, no crown will we win. No temptations exist, no conquerors are known. Votes: 1

You know, it's never wise to tempt the devil"His gaze lowered to her hand, still locked in his grip, her finger glistening with pear juice.His rich voice lowered to raw huskiness "had I not this mask, I should be of a mind to suck that juice right off your fingers Votes: 1

I don't know how often opportunity knocks, but temptations to make foul decisions bang on my door all day long. And smelly decisions make for smelly problems later on. A few little decisions, good or bad, can make a big difference in a life. Better to run from those skunks than with them. Votes: 1

I have a deep appreciation for anything that challenges my morality. I tend to wonder which thing or person might overpower my beliefs and would I avoid it altogether in order to say, "It didn't conquer me," or would I accept the challenge head-on in an attempt to prevail? Which requires greater courage? Votes: 1

Truth is, I don't know what Deacon wants anymore - it's not just physical. Whatever it is must scare him, though, and I'm the one who ends up getting hurt. So I make the concerted effort to resist his temptation, even if sometimes I'd like nothing more than to surround myself with his affection. Votes: 1

You may be tempted to regret being born when you are made to watch the videos of just what you will go through to achieve your dreams... But you are highly likely to wish you can live and live again and again if the size of your purposeful achievements is shown to you! Live on! Votes: 1

With every morn my life afresh must breakThe crust of self, gathered about me fresh;That thy wind-spirit may rush in and shakeThe darkness out of me, and rend the meshThe spider-devils spin out of the flesh-Eager to net the soul before it wake,That it may slumberous lie, and listen to the snake.George MacDonald Votes: 1

Virtue is insufficient temptation. Votes: 0

Capacity for joy Admits temptation. Votes: 0

Which is scarier-- lust or temptation? Votes: 0

He, who loves praise, loves temptation. Votes: 0

Put temptation on the unenjoyment line. Votes: 0

Expect temptation to your last breath. Votes: 0

Let my temptation be a book. Votes: 0

There's a lesson in every temptation. Votes: 0

Great success is a great temptation. Votes: 0

Terrible is the temptation to be good. Votes: 0

She was temptation wrapped in casual elegance. Votes: 0

The silence was always the greates temptation. Votes: 0

Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation Votes: 0

I deal with temptation by yielding to it. Votes: 0

The only thing I can't resist is temptation. Votes: 0

The only thing I cannot resist is temptation. Votes: 0

I resist the temptation to curate my apartment. Votes: 0

Why resist temptation? There will always be more. Votes: 0

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation. Votes: 0

The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism. Votes: 0

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory. Votes: 0

The temptation to entertain instead of selling is contagious. Votes: 0

Don't tempt me, I can resist anything but temptation. Votes: 0

The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue. Votes: 0

The noble temptation to see too much in everything. Votes: 0

Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue. Votes: 0

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Votes: 0

Anything is a temptation to those who dread it. Votes: 0

Remove the temptation of idleness and Cupid's bow is useless. Votes: 0

Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman. Votes: 0

Writing an upbeat aphorism is a temptation, but decorum forbids. Votes: 0

Only strong characters can resist the temptation of superficial analysis. Votes: 0

Beware of the temptation to see yourself as unfairly treated. Votes: 0

No temptation is a temptation, unless we are entertaining it. Votes: 0

Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation. Votes: 0

There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it. Votes: 0

Every time you defeat a temptation, you become more like Jesus! Votes: 0

There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation. Votes: 0

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil. Votes: 0

Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God. Votes: 0

Holiness is not freedom from temptation, but power to overcome temptation. Votes: 0

Every temptation is an offer to doubt God's love and wisdom. Votes: 0

With sin comes fatigue. With repentance comes temptation. With beatification comes ugliness." Votes: 0

Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good. Votes: 0

Choices are exhibited through the notions of free will,temptation challenges them. Votes: 0

The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation. Votes: 0

When fleeing the scene of temptation, do not leave a forwarding address. Votes: 0

The essence of temptation is the invitation to live independently of God. Votes: 0

Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation. Votes: 0

There can be no faith without doubt. No strength without temptation. (Rafael) Votes: 0

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. Votes: 0

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic. Votes: 0

That's the temptation of the devil: "Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!" Votes: 0

The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper. Votes: 0

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell Votes: 0

If you play with temptation do not expect God will deliver you Votes: 0

I am too impatient to wait for temptation to come to me. Votes: 0

If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. Votes: 0

The temptation of the age is to look good without being good. Votes: 0

No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes. Votes: 0

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object. Votes: 0

I ain't no drinking man, but temptation got the best of me. Votes: 0

The greek word for temptation means to test, to try, to prove. Votes: 0

I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism. Votes: 0

It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once. Votes: 0

Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses. Votes: 0

We cannot say no to temptation without saying yes to something far better. Votes: 0

Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead. Votes: 0

The future is always present, as a promise, a lure and a temptation. Votes: 0

Those who operate through the Holy Spirit are more equipped to resist temptation. Votes: 0

Those who operate through the Holy Spirit are more equipped to resist temptation. Votes: 0

One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers. Votes: 0

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. Votes: 0

Our response to temptation is an accurate barometer of our love for God. Votes: 0

For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything. Votes: 0

There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity. Votes: 0

Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation. Votes: 0

wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to temptation! Votes: 0

The best thing there is to do when there is temptation is run. Votes: 0

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. Votes: 0

Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering. Votes: 0

Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance. Votes: 0

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. Votes: 0

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd. Votes: 0

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry. Votes: 0

TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose. Votes: 0

There has always been discouragement, negativism, and temptation in the world because of Lucifer. Votes: 0

Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified. Votes: 0

God does not make our choices easier because temptation is his character development curriculum. Votes: 0

The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument. Votes: 0

I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation. Votes: 0

I have the financial morals of a goldfish, I can resist everything but temptation. Votes: 0

The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed. Votes: 0

After every temptation you will be either closer to God or further from Him. Votes: 0

Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others. Votes: 0

We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives. Votes: 0

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are. Votes: 0

Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient. Votes: 0

...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish. Votes: 0

If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong. Votes: 0

A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural. Votes: 0

No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation. Votes: 0

There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues. Votes: 0

Money is emphasized in Scripture simply because our temptation to love it is inexplicably powerful. Votes: 0

Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation. Votes: 0

The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority. Votes: 0

The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction. Votes: 0

When you fly from temptation, don't leave a forwarding address. Where there's smoke there's fire. Votes: 0

I never wanted the temptation to imitate or emulate something that had been done beforehand. Votes: 0

To know Pritkin was to want to kill him, but so far I'd resisted temptation. Votes: 0

If we didn't have to stand against temptation, we'd never know our own spiritual strength. Votes: 0

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary. Votes: 0

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation. Votes: 0

I have found that people who can successfully resist temptation invariably lead depressingly stunted lives. Votes: 0

If you don't want temptation to follow you, don't act as if you are interested. Votes: 0

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep. Votes: 0

There is always a temptation for governments: see a problem and announce a quick fix. Votes: 0

What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard. Votes: 0

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue. Votes: 0

As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama. Votes: 0

There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer. Votes: 0

Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation. Votes: 0

I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career. Votes: 0

O help me Father in heaven to overcome and resist temptation in every form or shape. Votes: 0

When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa. Votes: 0

It is too late if we wait until the moment of temptation before making our decision. Votes: 0

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely. Votes: 0

...the temptation, which consisted of a single word written on the cemetary of the defeated: Sleep. Votes: 0

Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice. Votes: 0

Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking. Votes: 0

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation. Votes: 0

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. Votes: 0

Soul's Castle fell at one blast of temptation, But many a worm had pierced the foundation. Votes: 0

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation. Votes: 0

Most humans feel the transcendent temptation, the emotional drive to festoon the universe with large-scale meaning. Votes: 0

Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation. Votes: 0

We must resist the temptation of once again turning America into the traditional bogeyman of the left. Votes: 0

Scripture doesn't promise that God will remove temptation, only that you'll be given strength to withstand it. Votes: 0

[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession. Votes: 0

Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above. Votes: 0

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty. Votes: 0

Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation. Votes: 0

Servitude, in many cases, is not forced upon by the masters, but a temptation of the servants. Votes: 0

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers. Votes: 0

Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution? Votes: 0

That was my nature - going from temptation after temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed. Votes: 0

The best way to resist temptation is to avoid it. Prevention is far, far better than repentance. Votes: 0

I would urge my fellow conservatives to avoid the temptation to crow about it or take credit. Votes: 0

...his lips were pure temptation, soft, bitable, sensual in a way only a man's mouth could be. Votes: 0

The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval. Votes: 0

The people who need to overcome temptation to the highest degree have the hardest time doing it. Votes: 0

Unwillingness to accept God's 'way of escape' from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within. Votes: 0

Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil. Votes: 0

Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it-the quality of temptation. Votes: 0

It is no credit to me to do right. I am never under any temptation to do wrong! Votes: 0

I have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies. Votes: 0

Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them. Votes: 0

I often long to . . . give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation. Votes: 0

Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell. Votes: 0

Freedom and victory belong to those who remain true and strong despite temptation to be dishonest and weak. Votes: 0

Between the demand to be clear,and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect. Votes: 0

...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit... Votes: 0

Maintaining the relationship. But there's also physical temptation and being on the same spiritual level, which can be difficult. Votes: 0

Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear. Votes: 0

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses. Votes: 0

Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear. Votes: 0

The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way. Votes: 0

Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation. Votes: 0

Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. And the results always illusory. Votes: 0

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. Votes: 0

The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny. Votes: 0

I have one reason why you should walk away from that temptation right now. One reason: God. Is. Better. Votes: 0

If you're a so-called minority writer, the temptation is to write for the majority... I refuse to do that. Votes: 0

When God has not taken away our trouble or temptation yet, with His grace in our lives, we are content. Votes: 0

We should have a strong president. Strong enough to resist the temptation of taking power that a president shouldn't have. Votes: 0

God is good but not safe, and the urge for safe art is often a worldly temptation away from goodness. Votes: 0

Simply building a fence between a child and temptation is not the same things as preparing him to face life. Votes: 0

Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife. Votes: 0

And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation. Votes: 0

We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement. Votes: 0

By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world. Votes: 0

The danger inherent in all force grows stronger when it is likely to gain success, for then it becomes temptation. Votes: 0

Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials. Votes: 0

There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading. Votes: 0

You know, there's that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound - well, to give yourself a bit of mystery. Votes: 0

I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame And every time I pass that way I always hear my name Votes: 0

Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency. Votes: 0

Have you been tormented with fears and doubts? Bombarded with temptation to sin? Try praising the Lord, and watch Satan flee. Votes: 0

If you decide that you cannot beat a temptation, what you are really doing is giving yourself permission to be irresponsible. Votes: 0

For they who think they make an end of temptation by yeilding to it, only set themselves on fire the more. Votes: 0

It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken Votes: 0

A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow. Votes: 0

Jesus's first temptation was to be relevant: to turn stones into bread. Oh, how often I wished I could do that! Votes: 0

The besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry. Votes: 0

Resist the temptation to compare yourself to others. This is crucial in order to be able to manifest whatever you want. Votes: 0

The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail. Votes: 0

When you're not happy, you need to be strong to change, resisting the temptation of turning back. The weak goes nowhere Votes: 0

ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit. Votes: 0

The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis. Votes: 0

Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill. Votes: 0

The possibility to go on indefinitely with our lives may become a reality and it will present us with a temptation. Votes: 0

I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it. Votes: 0

We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing. Votes: 0

The most common trait I have found in all successful people is that they have conquered the temptation to give up. Votes: 0

In times of temptation, of sorrow, of peace and of blessing, let us pray always, both alone and with our families. Votes: 0

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it. Votes: 0

Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation. Votes: 0

Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism! Votes: 0

The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems. Votes: 0

Believe it or not, when you fast in the Spirit, God makes you more equipped to deal with hunger, irritability, and temptation. Votes: 0

The temptation to quit and start over infects every creative process I've ever been in. Frustration and boredom always fuel this self-doubt. Votes: 0

...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will. Votes: 0

We should resist the temptation to identify our religious convictions with the platform of a party or the platitudes of favored politicians. Votes: 0

A standing army is like a standing member. It's an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure. Votes: 0

The temptation to add features to a program must be resisted as strongly as possible. This requires the dedication of a saint Votes: 0

It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably. Votes: 0

A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him. Votes: 0

We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want. Votes: 0

The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low. Votes: 0

I try to keep in shape and I always have to check myself. Whenever I binge eat, sweets are the one temptation. Votes: 0

Obviously, there's the temptation to sit back and smile, .. But there's so much at stake, we have to do our due diligence. Votes: 0

There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing. Votes: 0

Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know. Votes: 0

Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph? Votes: 0

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous. Votes: 0

A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation. Votes: 0

Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation? Votes: 0

I'd never say no to surgery in the future, because I feel like, as I get older, I'm going to face temptation more. Votes: 0

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality. Votes: 0

You don't have to get in or out of a position all at once. Avoid the temptation of wanting to be completely right. Votes: 0

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession. Votes: 0

The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation. Votes: 0

O that one unguarded moment! / Were it mine to live again, / All the strength of its temptation / Would appeal to me in vain. Votes: 0

Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves. Votes: 0

Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers. Votes: 0

It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together. Votes: 0

If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation. Votes: 0

Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ? Votes: 0

Power was my weakness and my temptation. And Miguel Sano is very tempting. But he is not weak. He is very, very strong. Votes: 0

There is no point in praying for victory over temptation if we are not willing to make a commitment to say no to it. Votes: 0

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise. Votes: 0

Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy. Votes: 0

PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is ill changing the creed to meet each rising temptation. The soul is truer than it seems, and refuses to be trifled with. Votes: 0

The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it. Votes: 0

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once. Votes: 0

Money, big money (which is actually a relative concept) is always, under any circumstances, a seduction, a test of morals, a temptation to sin. Votes: 0

When temptation comes your way, name that boastful, deceitful giant "Goliath!" and do with it as David did to the Philistine of Gath. Votes: 0

There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan's first temptation of Adam and Eve: "Ye shall be as gods." (Gen. 3:5) Votes: 0

I like to talk to myself ahead of time so when temptation comes, I've already made up my mind that I have the victory. Votes: 0

Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody. Votes: 0

If you are going to be underestimated by people who speak more rapidly, the temptation is to speak slowly and strategically and outwit them. Votes: 0

For every great temptation there will be many small ones. Wolves and bears are more dangerous than flies, but we are bothered most by flies. Votes: 0

As soon as you willfully allow a dialogue with temptation to begin, the soul is robbed of peace, just as consent to impurity destroys grace. Votes: 0

To pray against temptation, and yet rush into occasions, is to thrust your fingers into the fire, and then pray they might not be burnt. Votes: 0

I have switched on this modern laptop machine. And I have told myself that I must resist the temptation to start playing solitaire upon it. Votes: 0

The work that leads to a doctor's degree is a constant temptation to sacrifice one's growth as a man to one's growth as a specialist. Votes: 0

If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation. Votes: 0

I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them. Votes: 0

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. Votes: 0

And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else Votes: 0

There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

One of the ways [racism] pops up is when they turn a comic into a live-action movie and there's this temptation to make Asian characters white. Votes: 0

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot. Votes: 0

This is the great work of a man: always to take the blame for his own sins before God, and toexpect temptation to his last breath. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money. Votes: 0

I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome. Votes: 0

To go into temptation to find how strong you are, is as wise as to go before a mirror, with closed eyes, to find how you look when asleep. Votes: 0