Temptation Quotes
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It's always easier to avoid temptation than to resist it.
— Randy Alcorn
Resisted temptations become lost opportunities ...
— Margaret Ayer Barnes
But I find myself unable to resist the temptation. The same way you can't resist watching me whenever we're out. So territorial.
— Sarah J. Maas
Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.
— Jeanette Winterson
Resist the temptation to see yourself as a victim.
— James C. Dobson
We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
— Thomas A Kempis
If I yield to thy temptation, I must either feel the pangs of conscience, or the flames of hell.
— John Flavel
I believe it was an inspiration rather than a temptation
— Charlotte Bronte
When we succumb to temptation, we are failing to believe in that moment that everything we need, in Christ we already have.
— Tullian Tchividjian
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.
— James Allen
A heart's wound heals quicker than a soul's scratch.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
I like to talk to myself ahead of time so when temptation comes, I've already made up my mind that I have the victory.
— Joyce Meyer
I could never resist the temptation of having a look at something that doesn't exist.
— Andrzej Sapkowski
Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.
— Matthew Henry
Thou shalt never wash my feet.
— John The Apostle
We should resist the temptation to identify our religious convictions with the platform of a party or the platitudes of favored politicians.
— Ralph E. Reed Jr.
With every blessing comes temptation, tests and persecution
— Sunday Adelaja
Temptation is temptation." Lucy flipped anotherpage, her reading intent and steady. "No matter what the stakes. — Luke Taylor
It made me feel as if I was taking back some control over my life when everything else had been shaken up so frighteningly.
— Lucy Diamond
Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
— Calvin Coolidge
When you're not happy, you need to be strong to change, resisting the temptation of turning back. The weak goes nowhere
— Ayrton Senna
Servitude, in many cases, is not forced upon by the masters, but a temptation of the servants.
— Indro Montanelli
Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Saintliness is also a temptation.
— Jean Anouilh
There has always been discouragement, negativism, and temptation in the world because of Lucifer.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
Everything else is temptation.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
What's important is something other than I'm proven to be right. What's important is truth and hope and, and above all these, love.
— Russell D. Moore
Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.
— Stanley Schmidt
When you fly from temptation, don't leave a forwarding address. Where there's smoke there's fire.
— Plautus
Your level is above the reach of the devil ... Keep it in mind; as long as you are in the light of God, you bind him (the devil) tight!
— Israelmore Ayivor
The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To his extreme annoyance, tempted him.
— Hilaire Belloc
Temptation is His X-ray machine, revealing the hidden conflicts that need attention.
— Erwin W. Lutzer
Temptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious
— John Owen
Science, I had come to learn, is as political, competitive, and fierce a career as you can find, full of the temptation to find easy paths
— Paul Kalanithi
God does not make our choices easier because temptation is his character development curriculum.
— Erwin W. Lutzer
Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.
— Jorge Luis Borges
I have no problem not listening to the Temptations.
— Mitch Hedberg
They who pray that they may not be led into temptation, must not lead themselves into temptation. 2.
— Thomas Watson
Opportunity may only knock once, but temptation'll knock down the damn door and drag you out by the hair.
— Lois Greiman
The moment we give into temptation, Satan immediately changes his strategy and becomes the accuser. Thomas Brooks
— Thomas Brooks
Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials.
— Ibn Taymiyyah
TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.
— Ambrose Bierce
Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably.
— David Platt
There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.
— Henry Ward Beecher
What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
— Calvin Coolidge
There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do.
— Philip Kerr
When God has not taken away our trouble or temptation yet, with His grace in our lives, we are content.
— T. B. Joshua
Trials are nothing else but the forge that purifies the soul of all its imperfections.
— Magdalena De Pazzi
There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.
— Charles Baudelaire
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
— Henry A. Kissinger
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
— Ambrose Bierce
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
— James A. Michener
He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop.
— Robert South
Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.
— Earl Wilson
What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.
— Franklin P. Jones
Most humans feel the transcendent temptation, the emotional drive to festoon the universe with large-scale meaning.
— Paul Kurtz
The devil can't make you do anything! Resistance is not futile. You can overcome temptation. Where
— Adam Hamilton
Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?
— Robert Browning
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.
— Margaret Drabble
Temptation is the voice of reason without its clothes on.
— Anthony Marais
If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the temptation too.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken
— Walter Dean Myers
It is opportunity that makes the thief.
— Seneca The Younger
It's rather a strong check to one's self-complacency to find how much of one's right doing depends on not being in want of money.
— George Eliot
In truth, it requires not only a large intellect, but a large heart, to judge with becoming charity of the peculiar temptations of riches.
— Shirley Bassey
Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
— Oscar Wilde