Temptation Quotes - Page 14

The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.

He, who loves praise, loves temptation.

No one is so good that he is immune from temptation. We will never be entirely free from it. . . . There is no order so holy, no place so secret where there will be no temptation.

What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.

...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.

Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.

It is opportunity that makes the thief.

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

I have the financial morals of a goldfish, I can resist everything but temptation.

Retarget your money. When your money comes in, you need to have already targeted where you are going to invest or doodad temptation will set in.

Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

The danger inherent in all force grows stronger when it is likely to gain success, for then it becomes temptation.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

The Lord knows our bearing capacity, both as to coping and to comprehending, and He will not give us more to bear than we can manage at the moment, though to us it may seem otherwise. Just as no temptations will come to us from which we cannot escape or which we cannot bear, we will not be given more trials than we can sustain.

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.

When you really put your heart and soul into something, the temptation is to try to be in control of circumstances, however you can, and looking and seeing how people are responding.

Keep away from the fire!

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

Maintaining the relationship. But there's also physical temptation and being on the same spiritual level, which can be difficult.

The future is always present, as a promise, a lure and a temptation.

Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.

Every Christian is endued with a power whereby he is enabled to resist temptations.

Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and their ways nor pity and prayer for their deliverance.

And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage.

God has defeated Satan through the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Through this overwhelming victory, God has also empowered you to overcome any temptation to sin and has provided sufficient resources for you to respond biblically to any problem of life. By relying on God's power and being obedient to His Word, you can be an overcomer in any situation.