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 WildeMarriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. Votes: 4
George Bernard ShawGod is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers. Votes: 4
William PennThe 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 OrbenThe 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 TaylorTemptation is God's magnifying glass; it shows us how much work he has left to do in our lives. Votes: 3
Erwin W. LutzerVictorious 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 Sensenbrenner...there's one thing you'll never be delivered from. It's a ten-letter word called temptation! Votes: 1
Ty AdamsWith Stefan, the line between good and evil, right and wrong, becomes increasingly blurred. Votes: 1
Melika Dannese LuxWhat'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 RothThe hardest thing about getting what you want is knowing what to do with it. Votes: 1
Patrick HennesseyIt 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 LiccioneBut 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 TarttThe 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 WhartonIf 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 MorganWith sin comes fatigue. With repentance comes temptation. With beatification comes ugliness." Votes: 0
BauvardNever resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawChoices are exhibited through the notions of free will,temptation challenges them. Votes: 0
Crimson "C.L. Williams"The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation. Votes: 0
Francois FenelonWhen 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 KenyonThere 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 HitchensNever complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses. Votes: 0
Brian TracySafe 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 Mcgowan JohnsonThose who operate through the Holy Spirit are more equipped to resist temptation. Votes: 0
Monica JohnsonOne learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers. Votes: 0
James Russell LowellThere is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity. Votes: 0
Andy HargreavesAbstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceChrist wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering. Votes: 0
Alexander MacLarenResist 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 HopeThe 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 BierceThere has always been discouragement, negativism, and temptation in the world because of Lucifer. Votes: 0
Joseph B. WirthlinPreachers 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. LutzerThe virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument. Votes: 0
Madeleine de ScuderyI have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation. Votes: 0
Edna O'BrienI have the financial morals of a goldfish, I can resist everything but temptation. Votes: 0
Ruth St. DenisOur wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others. Votes: 0
Charles Caleb ColtonWe're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives. Votes: 0
Smokey Robinson...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish. Votes: 0
Piers AnthonyIf you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonA priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural. Votes: 0
Park Chan-wookNo 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 PaineThe greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority. Votes: 0
Stephen BatchelorThe Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction. Votes: 0
AristotleWhen you fly from temptation, don't leave a forwarding address. Where there's smoke there's fire. Votes: 0
PlautusI never wanted the temptation to imitate or emulate something that had been done beforehand. Votes: 0
Tyler HoechlinIf we didn't have to stand against temptation, we'd never know our own spiritual strength. Votes: 0
Joyce MeyerWe can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary. Votes: 0
Samuel RichardsonAbout the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation. Votes: 0
Tom WilsonIf you don't want temptation to follow you, don't act as if you are interested. Votes: 0
Richard L. EvansMany 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 HamblyMost dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareAs for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama. Votes: 0
Tom PerrottaThere 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 WintersonI have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career. Votes: 0
DeForest KelleyO 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 Tanner...the temptation, which consisted of a single word written on the cemetary of the defeated: Sleep. Votes: 0
Arthur KoestlerIgnorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice. Votes: 0
Ann RadcliffeAvoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking. Votes: 0
Francis CrickI have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation. Votes: 0
Max LernerThere is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. Votes: 0
James Branch CabellSoul's Castle fell at one blast of temptation, But many a worm had pierced the foundation. Votes: 0
William AllinghamWhen you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation. Votes: 0
Elizabeth KostovaEver notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty. Votes: 0
Earl WilsonTry to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation. Votes: 0
Arthur MillerServitude, in many cases, is not forced upon by the masters, but a temptation of the servants. Votes: 0
Indro MontanelliWhen 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 RiceThe best way to resist temptation is to avoid it. Prevention is far, far better than repentance. Votes: 0
Spencer W. KimballI would urge my fellow conservatives to avoid the temptation to crow about it or take credit. Votes: 0
Gary Bauer...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 ArielyCredit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil. Votes: 0
Solomon NorthupIt is no credit to me to do right. I am never under any temptation to do wrong! Votes: 0
Grover ClevelandI have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies. Votes: 0
Harry BrowneI often long to . . . give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellI never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawThe temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny. Votes: 0
Gelett BurgessHe'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
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: 1 John Owen
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