Temptation Quotes
Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation.
And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves
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.
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)
I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame And every time I pass that way I always hear my name
Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.
People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.
Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.
Where unclarity resides, there is temptation, and there it proves only too easily the stronger. Wherever there is ambiguity, wherever there is wavering, there is disobedience down at the bottom.
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.
It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.
Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill.
Vanity is a strong temptation to lying; it makes people magnify their merit, over flourish their family, and tell strange stories of their interest and acquaintance.
The two great words of antiquity are behold and beware. Behold the possibilities and beware the temptations.
Tomorrow's character is made out of today's thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin does not.
We should resist the temptation to identify our religious convictions with the platform of a party or the platitudes of favored politicians.
No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation.
If we resist the temptation to allow other people to define who we are, then we will gradually be able to let the sun inside our own soul shine forth.
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.
We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God's all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might.
The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.
The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation.
What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
Trials are nothing else but the forge that purifies the soul of all its imperfections.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
I love the soul that dares tread the temptations of his years beneath his youthful feet.
Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell, up here in Boston it's a passion play.
