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 Copy Share Image
... the devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for ... — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
“Life presents many challenges...Temptation is one of them.. And free will govern us all. We have the power to choose.” — Lee Monroe Copy Share Image
“Spiritual maturity is not defined by how well one applies Biblical principles to “suppress sin”.” — John Paul Warren Copy Share Image
Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
My temptation is emotional, and resisting will further my needed weight loss and strengthen my character. Furthermore, nothing tastes as good as… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“The anticipation of eating the candy drives up temptation, but the image of already chewing and swallowing M&M's drains the energy out… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. — James Buckham Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Money! Money's the curse of man, none greater. That's what wrecks cities, banishes men from homes, Tempts and deludes the most well-meaning… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I will ever be grateful for the wise counsel of a strong and inspired father when he taught, "If you always say… — Harold G. Hillam Copy Share Image
The temptation is for us to share our own opinions, our own thoughts and to speak from the whole realm of possibility.… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The command of a large sum is a dangerous temptation to a national administration. Though accumulated at their expense, the people rarely,… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
Human character is never found "to enter into its glory," except through the ordeal of affliction. Its force cannot come forth without… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
No one is so good that he is immune from temptation. We will never be entirely free from it. . . .… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled - secure from violent passions or temptations to evil - those who have never… — Eva Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
Jesus has many lovers of His kingdom of heaven, but he has few bearers of His Cross. Many desire His consolation, but… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up,… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
The worst possible thing for any of us - no matter what our temptations, no matter what our mortal inclinations may be… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
“I am. . . .power. . I am. . . .joy . . . . .peace. . . . . I am.… — Suenammi Richards Copy Share Image
If... God highly exalted Christ because He humbled Himself, suffered dishonour, was tempted and endured a shameful cross and death for our… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Liberals want to set up social welfare committees to help whites and West Indians love each other in Birmingham. But all such… — Lewis Nkosi Copy Share Image
But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to,… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations! — John Vianney Copy Share Image
Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous. — Elizabeth Bibesco Copy Share Image
But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also… — Saint Peter Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I might have resisted a great temptation, but the little ones would have pulled me down” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories. — Scott Hahn Copy Share Image
Sanctification costs to the extent of "an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth and an immense broadening of all our… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies. — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
When temptation comes your way, name that boastful, deceitful giant “Goliath!” and do with it as David did to the Philistine of… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Power was my weakness and my temptation. And Miguel Sano is very tempting. But he is not weak. He is very, very… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Jesus's first temptation was to be relevant: to turn stones into bread. Oh, how often I wished I could do that! — Mike Ditka Copy Share Image
What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night! — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
From the cradle to the grave, temptations all around. But no matter how good the fix, its gonna take you down. — Keith Urban Copy Share Image
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. — William Taylor Copy Share Image
Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
