“I can resist anything except temptation." Ren, main character in Sherrilyn Kenyon's novel Time Untime.” — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
When the tempter me pursueth With the sins of all my youth, And half damns me with untruth, Sweet Spirit, comfort me! — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
There's a sense in which the media narrative diminishes me. I resist the temptation to fit into a preconceived narrative. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own. — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
It has been wisely said, "that well may thy guardian angel suffer thee to lose thy locks, when thou darest wilfully to… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Advice to Young Journal Keepers. Be lenient with yourself. Conceal your worst faults, leave out your most shameful thoughts, actions, and temptations.… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Compromise built upon compromise equals failure. Instead, resisting temptation allowed promise upon promise to be built up in my heart, and that… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You must learn that if you are a Christian, you will without a doubt experience all kinds of opposition and evil inclinations… — Martin Luther 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
Our consumer-oriented economy wouldn't survive without economic growth. The whole mechanism depends on invention and insinuation of novelties, arousing new wants, seduction… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Have you been tormented with fears and doubts? Bombarded with temptation to sin? Try praising the Lord, and watch Satan flee. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
It takes a pretty strong person, a rather unusual young person, to stand up to ridicule and refuse to give in to… — Robert L. Millet Copy Share Image
Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting… — Vicesimus Knox Copy Share Image
For as a city which has been once besieged and not sacked will ever after be more strong to hold out if… — George Downame 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
“In other words Jesus went into the desert to confront His enemy and throw down the gauntlet. He would prove Himself to… — Swindoll Charles R Copy Share Image
Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
If you are committed to the change, you're going to have to sideline the skeptics, or at least keep them under control.… — Gary A. Klein Copy Share Image
