“A substitute of temptation is unspecified desire of mankind to the aim of success” — Mansur Almia Copy Share Image
There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
The two great words of antiquity are behold and beware. Behold the possibilities and beware the temptations. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Conquer temptations by the patience and prayer. If you oppose them without these, you will fall all the more severely. — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What… — Seneca the Elder Copy Share Image
Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering. — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Being strong is not try to avoid temptations. Being strong is face temptations and be able to say NO! — Ely Copy Share Image
To go into temptation to find how strong you are, is as wise as to go before a mirror, with closed eyes,… — Ivan Panin Copy Share Image
Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Temptation can be defined as an inducement to do evil. Three powerful forces work together to ruin a believer's character and witness:… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
I'm not an original member, though I'm sort of an original member. I've been on a lot of records and took them… — Dennis Edwards Copy Share Image
Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Humans cannot reject temptation. When they are plunged into the depths of despair, likened to hell, they will hold on to anything… — Yana Toboso Copy Share Image
In temptations against chastity, the spiritual masters advise us, not so much to contend with the bad thought, as to turn the… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
“He would be the object lesson, the walking warning to the cadets. What happened when you gave in to temptation. When you… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
If experience teaches anything, it is that what the community undertakes to do is usually done badly. This is due in part… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
But how can you know anything of the impression made on others? Who can assure you that others do not draw therefrom… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“In his temptation of Jesus, Satan quoted Scripture, and he didn't remember, misquote anything. God wants his children to eat bread, not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Obviously, the core of Eve’s temptation was she wanted to be like God, knowing good and evil. But we can’t ignore the… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
Scientists like myself merely use their gifts to show up that which already exists, and we look small compared to the artists… — Max Perutz Copy Share Image
“Not to be daily employing the Spirit and new nature for the mortifying of sin is to neglect that excellent succor which… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Lent is like a long 'retreat' during which we can turn back into ourselves and listen to the voice of God, in… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“They were not unfortunate girls who, as outcasts or in the belief that they were cast out by society, grieved wholesomely and… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
If you don't want temptation to follow you, don't act as if you are interested. — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
When temptations march monotonously in regiments, one waits for to pass. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed. — Bob Parsons Copy Share Image
