Temptation Quotes - Page 8

Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in the history of governments-a power concentration which defies the experience of mankind with the temptation of power to corrupt.

Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.

The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.

There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury; and, if he is overcome, you share his guilt.

To stand by yourself -- that was also part of dignity. That way, a person could get through a public flaying with dignity. Galileo. Luther. Even somebody who admitted his guilt and resisted the temptation to deny it. Something politicians couldn't do. Honesty, the courage for honesty. With others and yourself.

It is too late if we wait until the moment of temptation before making our decision.

I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless.

There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.

It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once.

If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives.

When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger.

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company.

I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it.

There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.

Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.

Heed not Mephistopheles, my children, lest you suffer eternal damnation. When he whispers in your ear, turn away your head and hearken instead to the angel on your shoulder.

Often the work of the Lord itself may be a temptation to keep us from that communion with Him which is so essential to the benefit of our own souls.

Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free

No one is immune to temptation. Not even a hero. Not even a nobody. Not even people like you and me. Lust is never very far away. And just when you least expect it, there it is again.

Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride.