Temptation Quotes - Page 13

There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.

No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation.

The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.

Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin.

There's a lesson in every temptation.

Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.

Our response to temptation is an accurate barometer of our love for God.

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.

Very simply, the Spirit of Elijah is the Holy Ghost. The Spirit of Elijah will influence anyone who is involved in this work. That, for a young person in the wickedness in the world in which we live today, is one of the greatest safeguards against the temptations of the adversary. The Spirit of Elijah will not only bless you, it will protect you.

It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.

What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.

The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation.

Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.

Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.

'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?

Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.

Say not that thou hast royal blood in thy veins; say not that thou art born of God if thou canst not prove thy pedigree by daring to be holy!

God tested Abraham. Temptation is not meant to make us fail; it is meant to confront us with a situation out of which we emerge stronger than we were. Temptation is not the penalty of manhood; it is the glory of manhood.

Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity, to revert under stress and strain, under neglect or temptation, to our first natures.

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

God has great plans for you, directed towards helping you do what Jesus Christ did when He was on earth. This requires you do resist temptation vigorously, with special confidence in the assistance of His Divine Goodness. Courage then, Monsieur. Be faithful to Him, and the Divine Goodness will be favorable to you.

There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.

As lovers of truth, we want to be close to it. Sometimes - evil thought, evil temptation - we want to be close to it by misleading others about its presence.