“There are some temptations that cannot be resisted, some lessons we never learn.” — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world. — Roger Mahony Copy Share Image
There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“What happened when you gave in to temptation. When you listened to the fallen angels of your nature.” — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
Love is a matter of keeping someone in your heart and being faithful despite of many temptations around you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All temptations can be handled easily when we know how, because no temptation is a temptation at all unless we are entertaining… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval. — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful manner; so that we are but little aware of them… — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
The most important thing is that we are on the right path, and we will not deviate from it, even in the… — Yemi Osinbajo Copy Share Image
The more pure and chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from which it… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
'Ernest Borgnine' is sort of my version of Woody Allen's 'Purple Rose Of Cairo' in that it's about the occasional difficulty of… — John Grant Copy Share Image
...in any land, in any country under modern free competition, to lay any class of weak and despised people, be they white,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
“In moments of unmet desire, heartbreak, or grief, Satan sends a poisonous arrow of doubt straight at your heart. This was his… — Marian Jordan Ellis Copy Share Image
Every trial that ever burdened a mortal man, every temptation that ever stormed a human heart, and every blessing that ever delighted… — Jim Berg Copy Share Image
“God invites while the devil pressures and shoves and bullies. Realize who holds the actual power before you react. You are greater… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
You know, in some ways conducting is counter-intuitive. It's like winter driving in Finland - if you skid, the natural reaction is… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Salafists are fundamentalists who dedicate their lives to religious preaching, converting non-believers and defending the strict moral codes of Islamic law. Salafists… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Time Management Tips: The perpetual processing of the same temptation is both dangerous and time-wasting. Cycling and recycling the same temptation (instead… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
To undertake the direction of the economic life of people with widely divergent ideals and values is to assume responsibilities which commit… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Ah! but a man cannot be held to write down in cold blood the wild and black thoughts that storm his brain… — Anthony Hope Copy Share Image
Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Think about the pressure to "pass" by lying about one's agethat familiar temptation to falsify a condition of one's birth oridentity and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I'd never say no to surgery in the future, because I feel like, as I get older, I'm going to face temptation… — Marcia Cross Copy Share Image
Be determined to be patient and stand up under temptation by the grace of God. It will put you one step ahead… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When reflection is thereby demystified, I believe that the temptation to view human knowledge as different in kind from animal knowledge is… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Today, the greatest challenge facing American evangelicals is not persecution from the world, but seduction by the world. — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
Do today's duty, fight today's temptation; do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away Paradise. Therefore in all temptations let us consider not what he offers, but what… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop. — Robert South Copy Share Image
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Lord forgive me, I aint perfect but I try to do right but I'm surrounded by wrong, so I come to you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you’d have a hard time resisting the temptation too.” — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“. . . is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Until we are renewed in the spirit of our mind and illumined in every part, our very virtues are but taught practices… — William Law Copy Share Image
The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail. — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
![“The more pure and chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from which it derives strength to resist all temptations to sins of impurity, and by which it is more intimately united with the Divine Spouse; 'He who eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood, abides in Me…” quote by Pope Pius XII](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/aae/pope-pius-xii-10088_blood_the-more-pure-and-chaste-is-a-soul-the-m_2739931.jpg)
