Overcoming temptation isn't easy. There must be commitment to resist it completely. — Gary Swanson Copy Share Image
When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colors that are but skin-deep. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Mixing with groups of people can be enjoyed, it is pleasing in a way that cannot be explained other than the temptation… — Raymond Burr Copy Share Image
The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through… — Bernard Gilpin Copy Share Image
“My, my, my…” She sighed, affecting a Southern drawl she no doubt stole from Wesley. “I see temptation has come a knockin’… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
“I have resisted temptation for two and a half minutes at least: my redemption is sure.” — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials. — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
Do not avoid temptation because it will land you on the next level... It's there to make you stronger. — Olajide Oluwatobiloba Copy Share Image
Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Remember sometimes just the rush of having a crush is a temptation, even if it is inappropriate, but beware of playing with… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
With the '60s era and Motown, my grandparents actually introduced us to that when I was younger, so I grew up listening… — Jordin Sparks Copy Share Image
“I don't know how often opportunity knocks, but temptations to make foul decisions bang on my door all day long. And smelly… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
Man must cast out of himself everything which separates him from God. He must will to live the divine life, and he… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
Wish there was something that I could say or do, I can resist anything but the temptation from you. But I'd rather… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
There's always going to be - I don't care who it is, there's always going to be - the temptation in Washington… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Scandal often does as much harm to the listeners as to those who devise it, even if it were to do no… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
He was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered… — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
Ah, my brother, it is a far harder thing, and it is afar higher proof of a thorough-going, persistent, Christian principle woven… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Mortifying the deeds of the body cannot be understood of the religious deeds of the body, for they are to be cherished,… — Christopher Love Copy Share Image
He brings to naught, destroys and rejects all that is not His own work; how He draws everything to Himself and absorbs… — Gerhard Tersteegen Copy Share Image
“ The Devil's Rose You would never take a rose from a beast. If his callous hand were to hold out a… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
In the deceitfulness of our hearts, we sometimes play with temptation by entertaining the thought that we can always confess and later… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“In Simon's entire life, he had never experienced such potent craving as he had the moment he had seen Annabelle half-undressed in… — Lisa Kleypas 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
Each temptation leaves us better or worse; neutrality is impossible. — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
