Temptation can be defined as an inducement to do evil. Three powerful forces work together to ruin a believer's character and witness:… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
As ministers our greatest temptation is toward too many words. They weaken our faith and make us lukewarm. But silence is a… — Henri Nouwen 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
The very good people did not convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you felt the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably. — David Platt Copy Share Image
Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There was a lot of temptation to do lots of bad things in my neighborhood. — Gary Payton Copy Share Image
Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains.... But it can put mountains where there are… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
Holiness is not freedom from temptation, but power to overcome temptation. — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one thatll get you home earlier. — Dan Bennett Copy Share Image
The best antidote against evils of all kinds, against the evil thoughts that haunt the soul, against the needless perplexities which distract… — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Copy Share Image
“ The Devil's Rose You would never take a rose from a beast. If his callous hand were to hold out a… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him. — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The distinction between feelings or inclinations on the one hand, and behavior on the other hand, is very clear. It's no sin… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct… — Elizabeth Missing Sewell Copy Share Image
If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he… — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay To have tricked temptation and turned it away, But wait, my friend, for… — Edmund Vance Cooke Copy Share Image
Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
