Temptation Quotes - Page 23

You must learn that if you are a Christian, you will without a doubt experience all kinds of opposition and evil inclinations in the flesh. For when you have faith, there will be a hundred more evil thoughts and a hundred more temptations than before.

For they who think they make an end of temptation by yeilding to it, only set themselves on fire the more.

My temptations have been my Masters of Divinity.

If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.

Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.

... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.

Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.

Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations.

The temptation to add features to a program must be resisted as strongly as possible. This requires the dedication of a saint

Temptations are part of life, part of growing up. We grapple with them often - in some instances for our lifetime - before we come to realize that it is not so much the victory as it is the struggle that is holy.

So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation.

Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.

Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.

After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.

That's the temptation of the devil: "Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!"

In the quiet hours, in the heat of battle, and through the hazards of the day; in times of temptation, of sorrow, of peace and of blessing, let us pray always, both alone, and with our families gathered around us, with gratitude for the blessings of life, for understanding of its problems, and for strength to endure to the end.

I would urge my fellow conservatives to avoid the temptation to crow about it or take credit.

Curiosity killed the cat.

Each temptation leaves us better or worse; neutrality is impossible.

Faith in the atonement and intercession of Christ will keep us steadfast and immovable amid the temptations that press upon us in the church militant.

We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be.

I'm glad that I didn't have the Internet when I started writing. I started writing when I was 20 and didn't show a word of it to anyone until I was 28. I had the sense to keep it to myself. Now the temptation with blogs and such, they're just getting it out there; maybe it would have been best to keep it to themselves.

Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?

Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.

My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you'll see you had to be sharp onstage.