Temptation Quotes - Page 24

Don't tempt me, I can resist anything but temptation.

Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.

What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.

Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.

Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.

Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.

Temptation: the fiend at my elbow.

That acknowledgment of weakness which we make in imploring to be relieved from hunger and from temptation is surely wisely put in our daily prayer. Think of it, you who are rich, and take heed how you turn a beggar away.

Until we are renewed in the spirit of our mind and illumined in every part, our very virtues are but taught practices grafted upon a corrupt bottom

Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.

A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.

Soul's Castle fell at one blast of temptation, But many a worm had pierced the foundation.

What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!

Beware of the temptation to see yourself as unfairly treated.

Mere mental assimilation of these truths cannot withstand temptation, however. The revelation of God is positively essential. The Spirit of God must reveal how we are in Christ and how we are united with Him in one.

In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.

However, there is one great temptation and that is that you can forget that the aim of the writer was to reject all other worlds and to construct one of his own and that the aim of the translator is to re-embody himself into the world of the various writers.

A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks.

The possibility to go on indefinitely with our lives may become a reality and it will present us with a temptation.

Temptation is impossible for me to resist Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description.

As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.

We should be on our guard against the temptation to argue directly from skill to capacity, and to assume when a man displays skill in some feat, his capacity is therefore considerable.

He has resisted Temptation for Centuries, A stone cold warrior whose frozen heart refuses to thaw- Until Her.

If I’ve already thought through a situation and have a response prepared ahead of time in the event temptation rears its ugly head, it is that much easier to resist.

I wanted to. I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled. Thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.