His Majesty [the Lord] . . . rewards great services with trials, and there can be no better reward, for out of… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
For some reason, we see long-term travel to faraway lands as a recurring dream or an exotic temptation, but not something that… — Rolf Potts Copy Share Image
One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
While the machinery of law enforcement and indeed the nature of crime itself have changed dramatically since the Fourth Amendment became part… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
It is a temptation to exploit one's technique because an audience is easily reached this way, but they cannot be moved by… — Alla Osipenko Copy Share Image
I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself.… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
God does not make our choices easier because temptation is his character development curriculum. — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The one thing you can't do is get carried away with that pace and bounce. There's a temptation to charge in and… — Glenn McGrath Copy Share Image
We must now surrender to the obligation to understand and to care. We must surrender ourselves to becoming conscious, thinking members of… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you. — Joey Adams Copy Share Image
We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Only strong characters can resist the temptation of superficial analysis. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
We know nothing of the trials, sorrows and temptations of those around us, of pillows wet with sobs, of the life-tragedy that… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
Even the acceptance of personal responsibility may not overcome the temptation to believe that now is not the time to repent. 'Now'… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
“The debris of her married life was enough to sever the tie between reality and dreams, the fine line between desire and… — Callie Hunter Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority. — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism! — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Heed not Mephistopheles, my children, lest you suffer eternal damnation. When he whispers in your ear, turn away your head and hearken… — Harry Segall Copy Share Image
If the soul would know the merit which one acquires in temptations suffered in patience and conquered, it would be tempted to… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
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