Some people are tempted most strongly at the beginning of their spiritual life, others near the end. Some are troubled all their… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The temptation was too great to resist. Heart thundering madly, Teddy closed the distance and pressed his lips to hers. Her eyes… — Mimi Matthews Copy Share Image
The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are temptations around you all the time. The trick is to work your way through anxiety or your tiredness or whatever,… — Lisa Ann Walter Copy Share Image
“And for the first time he understood. What temptation meant. It stood before him, made flesh and wit and intellect and desire,… — Olivia Gates Copy Share Image
When you're a child actor and play the precocious kid, the temptation is to wear leather pants or a cutoff shirt to… — Peter Billingsley Copy Share Image
I watched our friends' wary, intelligent faces droop at our tale. Their shock was a mere shadow of our own, resembling more… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
We often wonder that certain men and women are left by God to the commission of sins that shock us. We wonder… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
“But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself. The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is a subtle danger that leads people away from religion, prevents them from submitting to God as their Lord, and ultimately,… — Harun Yahya Copy Share Image
Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, and words, and thoughts; daily forgivenesses, unselfishness, kindnesses, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good… — John Ross Macduff Copy Share Image
God has defeated Satan through the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Through this overwhelming victory, God has also empowered… — John C. Broger Copy Share Image
On every occasion of uneasiness, we should retire to prayer, that we may give place to the grace and light of God… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have restored me to… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Whenever I may be tempted to slack up and let the business run for awhile on its own impetus, I picture my… — Harry Gordon Selfridge Copy Share Image
“God also puts His people in the middle of things for the same reason that He put the tree of temptation in… — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
A world of little cares is continually arising, which busy or affluent life knows nothing of, to open the first door to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Taking the money from drug operations and all that sort of stuff is something that goes past what most of us in… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
Suppose that by revenge you might destroy one enemy; yet, by exercising the Christian's temper you might conquer three–your own lust, Satan's… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
I'm highly aware that some impulses are harder to ignore than others. I'm aware that fear of consequences causes us to guard… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
“Mankind, I suppose, is designed to run on—to be motivated by—temptation. If progress is a virtue then this is our greatest gift.… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
I try to avoid the temptation with time as a total indicator for what my possibilities are for the marathon. It's the… — Ryan Hall Copy Share Image
There are in truth three states of the converted: the beginning, the middle, and the perfection. In the beginning they experience the… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
Integrity is hard work. I do think the Internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
However, there is one great temptation and that is that you can forget that the aim of the writer was to reject… — Ventseslav Konstantinov Copy Share Image
When you do the right thing, enjoy it! When you take positive actions, enjoy them. After all, they are leading you toward… — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
Where there is no free agency, there can be no morality. Where there is no temptation, there can be little claim to… — William H. Prescott Copy Share Image
Since all human governments, like all human individuals, are subject to temptation, especially the temptation to use this God-given role for their… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Temptation turns you. It makes you into something you never dreamed, it presses you to give up everything you ever loved, it… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
You can fix things with digital technology and there's a temptation to fix everything or make it perfect and what you're losing… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
I could go old-school; I listen to a lot of old-school music, like Teddy Pendergrass, the Temptations, people like that. I'm an… — Ace Hood Copy Share Image
Ten thousand million nightmares, temptation by the score, I used to get so high, and still I wanted more. You think my… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
When we were little, we kept close to our mother in a dark alley or if dogs barked at us. Now, when… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Free societies, which allow differences to speak and be heard, and live by intermarriage, commerce, and free migration, and democratic societies, which… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
The most important thing about the gentleman was that he was an idealist. ... He was bred up to a code of… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
