Temptation Quotes - Page 27

I try to keep in shape and I always have to check myself. Whenever I binge eat, sweets are the one temptation.

I have no problem not listening to the Temptations.

I resist my temptations in order to feel i am free.

Jesus's first temptation was to be relevant: to turn stones into bread. Oh, how often I wished I could do that!

The film The Last Temptation of Christ, no matter what its defenders say, was a slap in the face to Christians everywhere.

The temptation is for us to share our own opinions, our own thoughts and to speak from the whole realm of possibility. We can't do that as pastors. We need to have a strong voice of conviction, and the way we can do that is through Scripture.

The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.

Your cable television is experiencing difficulties. Please do not panic. Resist the temptation to read or talk to loved ones. Do not attempt sexual relations, as years of TV radiation have left your genitals withered and useless.

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

Our office...subjects us to great burdens and labors, dangers and temptations, with little reward or gratitude from the world. But Christ himself will be our reward if we labor faithfully.

The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition - the temptation to churn out easily identifiable, eagerly welcomed, and readily salable designs.

The silence was always the greates temptation.

The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does poverty.

I have switched on this modern laptop machine. And I have told myself that I must resist the temptation to start playing solitaire upon it.

There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.

Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

I'd never say no to surgery in the future, because I feel like, as I get older, I'm going to face temptation more.

When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.

A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations.

One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense.

I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.

The possibility of remedying imprudent actions is commonly an inducement to commit them.

Really? And what curse befalls the Adams of the world?" Ann opens her mouth and, presumably thinking of nothing to say, closes it again. It is Felicity who answers, eyes steely. "They are weak to temptation. And we are their temptresses.

I know as well as any one, [the devil] is an adversary, whom if we resist, he will fly from us--but I seldom resist him at all; from a terror, that though I may conquer, I may still get a hurt in the combat--soinstead of thinking to make him fly, I generally fly myself.

Leigh did what any sane female faced with such an e-mail would do: deleted it to resist the temptation of replying, cleared her trash to resist the temptation of recalling it, and then called tech support to restore all her recently deleted e-mails. (Chasing Harry Winston)