It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken — Walter Dean Myers 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
Most humans feel the transcendent temptation, the emotional drive to festoon the universe with large-scale meaning. — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
“What a grand revenge you have taken! I saw you innocent, and I deceived you. Four years after, you find me a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
No one is here," Char said. "You need resist temptation no longer." "Only if you slide too." "I'll go first so I… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
It is ill changing the creed to meet each rising temptation. The soul is truer than it seems, and refuses to be… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
“At such moments felt my mind wake up with the temptation of life gathering courage for flowering beauty even in the desert… — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is neither easy nor agreeable to dredge this abyss of viciousness, and yet I think it must be done, because what… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; - and you think that a woman cannot be too little… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
“He turned and quickly removed his pants. My eyes grew huge, since he wore nothing underneath. I started to stammer, trying to… — Alisha Basso 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
Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it,… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There is always a temptation for governments: see a problem and announce a quick fix. — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
When fleeing the scene of temptation, do not leave a forwarding address. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Early on in the writing process, there is sometimes this temptation to write around the central drama instead of just aiming for… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Be not afraid, though every stay Should fail, or be removed away, And thou be stript of all; But lose thyself in… — Gerhard Tersteegen Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is an ugly sin, repugnant to those who find no temptation in it, as well as to many past offenders who… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
The prevailing idea seems to be, that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and that I… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife. — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
