Tempted Quotes

Sometimes you get tempted to make something wonderful even better but in doing so you lose what was so wonderful to begin with.

Be present to those who, living in the midst of a society burdened by poverty and corruption, are broken in spirit, tempted to give up, to leave school and to live on the streets.

I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.

God uses the opposite situation of each fruit to allow us a choice. You can't claim to be good if you have never been tempted to be bad.

You will be tempted by the need to feed yourself.

Ruins are ideal: the perceiver's attitudes count so heavily that one is tempted to say ruins are a way of seeing.

Every Christian in every time and place is going to be tempted by certain forms of heresy. I'm sure I'm tempted by my own.

I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.

The commodiousness of money is indeed great; but there are some advantages which money cannot buy, and which therefore no wise man will by the love of money be tempted to forego.

Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident

When it was her own doing, she was always tempted to skip a day, or just glance down, then get back to the ground. Kel had to force herself to keep her vow.

I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart.

When tempted to do any thing in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public.

Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers.

I want an open dialogue. I want husbands and wives and people in relationships to walk out of the theater thinking, "Could this happen to me? I know I'm being tempted."

He's earned all his money himself, with his fists. He didn't steal it like the rest of our politicians. And he'll be less tempted to steal if he gets in the chair.

Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that we are most tempted to lie. I know what he means, and I agree.

Say I Want to Feel Good when youre Tempted to Indulge in Low-Energy Thoughts

Because we don't see the evil destroyed now and thus experience the suffering that evil inevitably inflicts, we are tempted to doubt God's existence and goodness.

The tempter or the tempted, who sins most? Ha! Not she: nor doth she tempt: but it is I That, lying by the violet in the sun, Do as the carrion does, not as the flower, Corrupt with virtuous season.

If I were to sit down and count them, how many of my prayers were tainted by the seduction of greed? None, simply because nothing of that sort is a prayer.

He was a match

I committed mistakes many times, fall short, tempted and diverted but able to reconfigure my direction because of God's loving mercy.