Temptation Quotes - Page 15

Saintliness is also a temptation.

Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

No place, no company, no age, no person is temptation-free; let no man boast that he was never tempted, let him not be high-minded, but fear, for he may be surprised in that very instant wherein he boasteth that he was never tempted at all.

Gaming is a vice the more dangerous as it is deceitful; and, contrary to every other species of luxury, flatters its votaries with the hopes of increasing their wealth; so that avarice itself is so far from securing us against its temptations that it often betrays the more thoughtless and giddy part of mankind into them.

It is no credit to me to do right. I am never under any temptation to do wrong!

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.

Temptation is a dress rehearsal for a karmic experience of negativity.

Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad.

The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful manner; so that we are but little aware of them and less able to withstand them.

Temptation is not a sin; it is a call to battle.

O help me Father in heaven to overcome and resist temptation in every form or shape.

God tests, but he does not tempt.

There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object.

There’s an old Chinese saying that I just love, and I believe it is so true. It goes like this: ‘The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.’

It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it.

Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

I don't take drugs nor drink since 2000 and I must say that I don't think about it anymore, although like every person that was addicted and has money - I know that this can lead to temptation.

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.

Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite of all temptations or menaces.

Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.