The temptation to believe that the Universe is the product of some sort of design, a manifestation of subtle aesthetic and mathematical… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external… — Edward Zwick Copy Share Image
There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
The elegance of dress, of motion, and of manners gives a lustre to beauty, and inflames the senses through the imagination. Luxurious… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes. — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
He was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered… — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, although we had some terrible challenges and temptations when I was in office, we never dropped a… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
It’s all about sticking to your plan and experiencing feelings as they arise. If you are unwilling to feel your feelings, the… — Ed Seykota Copy Share Image
People are fascinated with eternal life and physical power - the idea of having no vulnerability. We all feel small and powerless… — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
When you really put your heart and soul into something, the temptation is to try to be in control of circumstances, however… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
The Lord sometimes allows people who are devoted to Him to fall into such dreadful vices; and this is in order to… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
I think temptation is ever present to become something that you think is more socially acceptable. — Shannon Purser Copy Share Image
The Church is likewise conscious of the responsibility which all of us have for our world, for the whole of creation, which… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Even as we slog through the trials, persecutions, irritations, temptations, distractions, apathy, and just plain weariness of this world, the gospel points… — Greg Gilbert Copy Share Image
Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before. — John Owen Copy Share Image
I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only… — John Newton Copy Share Image
Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame And every time I pass that way I always hear my name — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“I don't know how often opportunity knocks, but temptations to make foul decisions bang on my door all day long. And smelly… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
Two great virtues . . . give a man power with the heavens - integrity and purity of character. Let a man… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
