Temptation Quotes - Page 12

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

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

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

If you will study the scriptures diligently, your power to avoid temptation and to receive direction of the Holy Ghost in all you do will be increased.

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

Homosexuality is an ugly sin, repugnant to those who find no temptation in it, as well as to many past offenders who are seeking a way out of its clutches. It is embarrassing and unpleasant as a subject for discussion but because of its prevalence, the need to warn the uninitiated, and the desire to help those who may already be involved in it, it is discussed in this chapter.

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.

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

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

The temptation to be popular may prioritize public opinion above the word of God. Political campaigns and marketing strategies widely employ public opinion polls to shape their plans. Results of those polls are informative. But they could hardly be used as grounds to justify disobedience to God’s commandments!

He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop.

The most important thing about the gentleman was that he was an idealist. ... He was bred up to a code of self-restraint which taught resistance to pragmatic temptation. He was definitely a man of sentiment, who refused to put matters on a basis of materialism and self-aggrandizement.

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

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.

Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.

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

Resisted temptations become lost opportunities.

Trials are nothing else but the forge that purifies the soul of all its imperfections.

Take my advice, dear reader, don’t talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible. But resist it. Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to be somewhat chiselled, as it were, before it will quite fit into an epigram.

It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones.

The two great words of antiquity are behold and beware. Behold the possibilities and beware the temptations.

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

Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.

I love the soul that dares tread the temptations of his years beneath his youthful feet.