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The thought of superhuman beings with human temptations and flaws sends a chill through me. — Susan Ee

You know what, life is full of temptations. — Smokey Robinson

Eventually I learned to reject this advice. Somehow, I figured out that it was easier for me to resist certain temptations by never giving in to them. — Gretchen Rubin

There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean. — Hilaire Belloc

Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear. — Boyd K. Packer

Resisted temptations become lost opportunities ... — Margaret Ayer Barnes

It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts. — Billy Graham

Temptations discover what you are. — Thomas A Kempis

Even before coming into the industry, I was a big fan of Motown, the Jackson 5, Gladys Knight, the Temptations, Diana Ross and The Supremes. — Stephanie Mills

The whole time I was with 'The Temptations', I was accumulating my own solo recordings. — Ali-Ollie Woodson

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

Realize that enough hidden strength lies within you to overcome all obstacles and temptations. Bring forth that indomitable power and energy. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle — Charles Spurgeon

When you begin to pursue your promised land, you get a lot of prohibitions and temptations — Sunday Adelaja

No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures. — John Bunyan

Our greatest temptations generally arise from the areas closest to our hearts. — Sigmund Brouwer

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. — Walter Bagehot

Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity. — Alexander Crummell

Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them — A.J. Cronin

Both believers and unbelievers go through temptations — Sunday Adelaja

There are more temptations in business than in any other sphere of the society — Sunday Adelaja

If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations! — John Vianney

Many of us suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer. — Oswald Chambers

What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them? — P.G. Wodehouse

The temptations that use the raw material of good for evil can continue unrecognized for a long time without awareness. — Eugene H. Peterson

Do not sell your soul for a bucketful of pleasures and temptations. It's God's priceless gift to you. — Christian Hunt

You have a heritage honor it. You have posses a testimony share it. You will face temptations withstand it. You know the truth live it. — Thomas S. Monson

Artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger. — Phyllis Bottome

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

Only hour by hour gratitude is strong enough to overcome all temptations to resentment. — Richard Rohr

It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones. — John William De Forest

Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse. — Robert Herrick

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. — Ellen G. White

Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before. — John Owen

The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems. — Lee H. Hamilton

Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of our self-confidence. — Francois Fenelon

Faith in Christ is able to endure doubts - it's able to endure temptations - because it faces [them], not because it pretends [they're] not there. — Michael S. Horton

The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations. — John Wycliffe

When we rise above our temptations and resist them, we exercise self-control. And that's when we experience true freedom and emotional health. — David J. Lieberman

There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist — John Lubbock

You never know what you're made of until temptation comes knocking. The only temptation I've given in to is to have one more slice. — Donna Lynn Hope

We must despise all these temptations and pay no attention whatsoever to them. — Therese De Lisieux

Trying to eliminate worldly temptations
only makes our spiritual growth limited. — Toba Beta

Without the fear of God it is impossible to say 'No' to temptations and evil. — Sunday Adelaja

I listen to a lot of old stuff like Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, and The Temptations. — Brett Davern

Children may be born angels, but with all the temptations out there in the world, it takes work to try to keep them that way. — LZ Granderson

Morality is a check upon the strongest temptations. — Marilynne Robinson

A total commitment to anxiously serve the Lord and others is the surest way to overcome temptations of the adversary. — James M. Paramore

What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged. — Steve Lacy

Who, under pressing temptations to lie, adheres to truth, nor to the profane betrays aught of a sacred trust, is near the summit of wisdom and virtue. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Flee idleness ... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do. — Robert Bellarmine

The silence became palpable and merciless in its depths. The only sound came from my car's radio. The Temptations towed me to tears. — Billy O'Connor

The wilderness is a place of trials and temptations where everyone is prepared and trained to fulfill God's calling — Sunday Adelaja

In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me. — Robert Herrick

The same sins that tempted past generations remain perennial temptations today. — Anonymous

Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall. — James Joyce

The beginning of all temptations to evil is instability of temper and want of trust in God; — Thomas A Kempis

Being as it was one of my dreams to sing with one of the world's greatest groups, for me to join 'The Temptations' was a great blessing. — Ali-Ollie Woodson

For it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted. — Louisa May Alcott

Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself. — Henry Ward Beecher

Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock. — Ronald Reagan

You probably drink too much. If you hand me that bottle, I'll reduce your temptations.
Augustus "Gus" McCrae — Larry McMurtry

You are the belle of the ball tonight." He said as he moved in closer. "How can you be so sinfully beautiful Mrs. Norman? — Barry Gray

You can't be tempted, unless you want what is tempting you. — Shannon L. Alder

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. — Margaret Oliphant

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

Tempted to type meaningless twaddle all the time on Twitter ... with alliteration, no less! — E.A. Bucchianeri

Objectivity and presence of mind are essential in such positions where sacrificial temptations are not always resistable. — Leonid Shamkovich

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

There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued. — Albert Pike

I have no problem not listening to the Temptations. — Mitch Hedberg

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice. — Mark Twain

Those that are in the state of widowhood must resist the temptations of their youth. — Nancy B. Brewer

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

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

If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories. — Scott Hahn

Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs
no regular hours, so many temptations! — Elizabeth Bishop

What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations. — Calvin Coolidge

It was the forest's fault. Those two handsome woodcutters. An evil place, the forest, everyone knew it, full of temptations and imps ... — Tanith Lee

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

There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues. — Charles Baudelaire

Why put temptations my way when I've decided to sacrifice my future? — Sunanda J. Chatterjee

I love the soul that dares tread the temptations of his years beneath his youthful feet. — Isaac Watts

Your temptations are from the devil and from Hell; but your sufferings and afflictions are from God and Heaven. — Pio Of Pietrelcina

Sexual temptations are lurking around every corner in our lives today! Resisting the temptation to gratify the flesh is a full-time job. — Gary Rohrmayer

So many choices and temptations tonight. - Emma — Martha Sweeney

To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations. — Edward Gibbon

All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome. — George Whitefield

Women are not thousands of temptations to hell. They are thousands of reminders of the beauty of heaven. — Jason Evert

The world lures people with its temptations and attractions, masking them with a cover of pleasure — Sunday Adelaja

Age does not bring wisdom, Ben, but it does give perspective ... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted. — Robert A. Heinlein

I always loved Little Anthony and the Imperials. They were like the precursors of the Temptations. I loved their music. — Bobby Keys

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons. — Thomas A Kempis

The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods. — Thomas Merton

I need to stay continually watchful, prepared with the whole armor of God if I want to combat the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil. — Lynn Austin

I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines — Joanne Harris

I've learned through a series of trials and errors that the median space is actually what's missing in our daily walk. — Carlos Wallace

Fresh, vivacious and utterly light,
Spring leaves are so bright.
Born free, live free, die free,
They raise temptations in me. — P. Pradeep Raj

The Holy Ghost is the only One who can detect the temptations of Satan, neither our common sense nor our human wisdom can detect them as temptations. — Oswald Chambers

A live spent resisting temptations is a wasted life ... . — Paulo Coelho