“There is no memory less satisfying than a temptation that we resisted.” — Erin Mccarthy Copy Share Image
Our response to temptation is an accurate barometer of our love for God. — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
“Weakness is giving in to temptation. Strength is resisting it.” — Chuck Hogan Guillermo Del Toro Copy Share Image
Mixing with groups of people can be enjoyed, it is pleasing in a way that cannot be explained other than the temptation… — Raymond Burr Copy Share Image
One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Often the work of the Lord itself may be a temptation to keep us from that communion with Him which is so… — George Muller Copy Share Image
This bizarre industry presents so many paths of temptation. If you don't have some kind of foundation, typically from family, then it… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
Two temptations that impair the value of their work inevitably beset public men who write memoirs. One is a tendency to reconstruct… — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Copy Share Image
When someone is good at what he does but is a nonconformist, there is a temptation in horse racing, like in all… — David Milch Copy Share Image
If the 'self-life' is supreme, Satan does not have to be invited in. The lines are already set for the 'electric' current… — F. Huegel Copy Share Image
“We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because he… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When a friend needs consoling, do not give in to the temptation of telling stories similar to theirs of disaster or bereavement.… — Giles Andreae 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
Love is a sensation, caused by temptation when a guy sticks his location in a girls destination to increase the population for… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Did you already forget how to promise?” I worm my pinkie around his and squeeze. He squeezes back and lowers our joined… — Kristin Rae Copy Share Image
Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I think what you see a lot of in American religion, even in areas of American Christianity that don't go all the… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
“Oh, my. Empress." His words pulled her from her thoughts. His gaze was locked upon her, taking in the beautiful silk lingerie,… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Poor fool! If he had only left that shutter alone. He had no restraint, no restraint—just like Kurtz—a tree swayed by the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Temptation is necessary to make us realize that we are nothing in ourselves. — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Temptations cannot but come, but woe to those through whom they come.” — Matthew the Apostle Copy Share Image
The essence of temptation is the invitation to live independently of God. — Neil T Anderson Copy Share Image
