Temptation Quotes

I won't stick around to see how much temptation I can take. God is not impressed with my ability to stand up to sin. He is more impressed by the obedience I show when I run from it.

I am, as ever, a poor sinner, a captive of eternal love, running by the side of His triumphal chariot, and I have no desire to be anything else as long as I live.

I didn't want to think about a project that I couldn't finish. That's a kind of temptation. One has to realize one's limitations. Why kid yourself? 

A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they really were

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.

Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.

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

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

The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws in the system.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.

All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome.

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

Integrity is built by defeating the temptation to be dishonest; humility grows when we refuse to be prideful; and endurance develops every time you reject the temptation to give up.

She was temptation wrapped in casual elegance.

Realize that enough hidden strength lies within you to overcome all obstacles and temptations. Bring forth that indomitable power and energy.

The riches of His free grace cause me daily to triumph over all the temptations of the wicked one, who is very vigilant, and seeks all occasions to disturb me.

God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they drive us to despair.

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

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

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

True Christians are assured that no temptation (or trial) shall happen to them but what they shall be enabled to bear; and that the grace of Christ shall be sufficient for them.

Things forbidden have a secret charm.

As the worlds getting filled with temptations, were getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.

The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.

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

The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated into crime.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

The biggest human temptation is... to settle for too little.

Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.

It’s all about sticking to your plan and experiencing feelings as they arise. If you are unwilling to feel your feelings, the temptation is to avoid them by jumping off your system

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray.

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

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

... there is a particular propensity in the world for people, wherever they appear in great numbers, to permit themselves collectively everything that would be forbidden them individually.

Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.

Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them

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

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

Sanctification costs to the extent of "an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth and an immense broadening of all our interests in God.

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

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

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

From the cradle to the grave, temptations all around. But no matter how good the fix, its gonna take you down.

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

Women are not thousands of temptations to hell. They are thousands of reminders of the beauty of heaven.

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

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