The essence of temptation is the invitation to live independently of God. — Neil T Anderson Copy Share Image
Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
There's always a way out of temptation. God always provides a way. -1Cor10:13 — Bible Copy Share Image
In times of temptation, of sorrow, of peace and of blessing, let us pray always, both alone and with our families. — Heber J. Grant 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
Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I have found that people who can successfully resist temptation invariably lead depressingly stunted lives. — C.D. Payne Copy Share Image
I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty. — Earl Wilson 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
I wouldn't call myself a leader. I don't want to lead people, I want to tempt them, I want to create a… — Paul van Dyk 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
When I know things are not for me, I learn to let go. It doesn't mean I'm weak but I'm just showing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
A trustworthy marriage has weathered temptation and anger and jealousy, resentment, self-righteousness and a little bit of selfishness. When you get over… — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
The Lord is well aware of our mortality. He knows our weaknesses. He understands the challenges of our everyday lives. He has… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
There's always going to be - I don't care who it is, there's always going to be - the temptation in Washington… — Rush Limbaugh 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
The first gift that Adam and Eve received was agency: ‘Thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee’ (Moses… — Boyd K. Packer 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
But how can you know anything of the impression made on others? Who can assure you that others do not draw therefrom… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
“In his temptation of Jesus, Satan quoted Scripture, and he didn't remember, misquote anything. God wants his children to eat bread, not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who… — John Locke 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
We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them — A.J. Cronin Copy Share Image
Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
