Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty. — Earl Wilson Copy Share Image
I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
The temptation to quit and start over infects every creative process I've ever been in. Frustration and boredom always fuel this self-doubt. — Robert Lopez Copy Share Image
I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Often the work of the Lord itself may be a temptation to keep us from that communion with Him which is so… — George Muller Copy Share Image
A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
In times of temptation, of sorrow, of peace and of blessing, let us pray always, both alone and with our families. — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
“Entering the foyer, Royale already decided that he would thank Shake once more for being by his side at Keena’s recital. But… — S.B. Redd 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… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Political] conventions lend themselves to pandering, as few politicians can resist the temptation to tell a national television audience how well they… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Don't accommodate any degree of temptation. Prevent sin and avoid having to deal with its inevitable destruction. So, turn it off! Look… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
The more we see that any action springs not from the motive of obedience, the more evident is it that it is… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
So if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall!! No temptation has seized you except what is… — Bel Claveria Carig Martinez Copy Share Image
When individual enterprise is free and unhampered, profit-and-loss calculations set precise limits to a businessman's temptations to expand his services... a government… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
Temptation is a fearful word. It indicates the beginning of a possible series of infinite evils. It is the ringing of an… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
It would be wrong of me to suppose that just because I can form private mental images, that everyone can. As Francis… — David Berman Copy Share Image
Mortality is, in reality, a very, very short period. It is literally a snap of the fingers compared to an eternity. It… — Hartman Rector, Jr Copy Share Image
It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Self-control Proverbs 25:28 ESV A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls. 1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV… — Anne Nwakama Copy Share Image
The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I want to say, however, one thing our media in America has done which didn't happen in other totalitarian states is it… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Let our hearts admit, “I am poor and weak. Satan is too subtle, too cunning, too powerful; he watches constantly for advantages… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan's first temptation of Adam and Eve: "Ye shall be as… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
This bizarre industry presents so many paths of temptation. If you don't have some kind of foundation, typically from family, then it… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
“That’s too much power for one man to wield, too much temptation. The easier we make it to kill, the less time… — Lindsay Buroker Copy Share Image
The film The Last Temptation of Christ, no matter what its defenders say, was a slap in the face to Christians everywhere. — Mickey Rooney Copy Share Image
Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I have found that people who can successfully resist temptation invariably lead depressingly stunted lives. — C.D. Payne Copy Share Image
God is good but not safe, and the urge for safe art is often a worldly temptation away from goodness. — Kenneth Myers Copy Share Image
It is too late if we wait until the moment of temptation before making our decision. — Nathan Eldon Tanner Copy Share Image
“If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could?” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
If an unexpected temptation comes, don't blame the one through whom it came, but seek out the reason. Thus you will find… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil. — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
O help me Father in heaven to overcome and resist temptation in every form or shape. — Emmeline B. Wells Copy Share Image
The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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