Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Temptations are as thick as the leaves of the forest, and no one can be out of the reach of temptation unless… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Just go into the room, sit in the centre of the room, open the doors and windows, and see who comes to… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
“Success cannot resist the temptation of consistency and persistence.” — Noel DeJesus Copy Share Image
“Once you compromise your integrity, you make it easier to give in to temptation the next time.” — Frank Sonnenberg Copy Share Image
If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories. — Scott Hahn Copy Share Image
God won't permit temptation beyond your strength. It is true that temptations come to all, but God will give you the graces… — Patrick Madrid Copy Share Image
If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
True Christians are assured that no temptation (or trial) shall happen to them but what they shall be enabled to bear; and… — Roger Sherman Copy Share Image
Sometimes the hardest thing to do in a pressure situation is to allow the tension to persist. The temptation is to make… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
At times discreetly, at times disgustingly, I yielded to the most fatal temptation whenever I could no longer bear it: as a… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Character is distilled out of our daily confrontation with temptation, out of our regular response to the call of duty. It is… — Sidney Greenberg Copy Share Image
The way to Heaven is straight and narrow: they who wish to arrive at that place of bliss by walking in the… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
if we continue with what is surely our greatest Western temptation, and think that in some way history owes us a solution,… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
Ye whose clay-cold heads and luke-warm hearts can argue down or mask your passions--tell me, what trespass is it that man should… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Women have traditionally been either put on pedestals or damned as the source of all sexual temptation and sin. These are two… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Many of us suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I'd never understood how Carlisle was able to do that - ignore the blood of his patients in order to treat them.… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
