The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument. — Madeleine de Scudery 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
“There is no memory less satisfying than a temptation that we resisted.” — Erin Mccarthy Copy Share Image
Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
Like the apple of Thine eye preserve me, O Lord God; defend me and beneath Thy wings shelter me from temptations. — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
When you have to rehearse with some gorgeous lady and have to kiss her, there has to be temptation. — Bernard Cribbins Copy Share Image
Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter. As you press for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
A standing army is like a standing member. It's an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure. — Elbridge Gerry Copy Share Image
Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
It's hard to know what is the right decision when we are full of temptation but if we have God in our… — Mariane Corbito Copy Share Image
Man has always been dexterous at confusing evil with good. That was Adam's and Eve's problem, and it is our problem today.… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation… — Victoria Secunda Copy Share Image
That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel.… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
“Everyone has a temptation; a weakness that they would yield to. Mine is you. Not only you, but your love. For your… — Jennifer Megan Varnadore Copy Share Image
...if I were asked to think up a new name for temptation, I should recommend the word 'doorknob', because what are these… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
I find it most true that the greatest temptation outside of hell is to live without temptations; if water stands, it rots;… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
“Here’s a hand to the boy who has courage To do what he knows to be right; When he falls in the… — Phoebe Cary Copy Share Image
There is another temptation which we must especially guard against: the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil; or, if you… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
On this earth all is temptation. Crosses tempt us by irritating our pride, and prosperity by flattering it. Our life is a… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
“How? And why would you care?” I asked and ignored the angry glance Paul was directing at me. “He is a pathetic… — K.A. Poe Copy Share Image
Like Jesus, we can decide, daily or instantly, to give no heed to temptation (see D&C 20:22). We can respond to irritation… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Jesus has many lovers of His kingdom of heaven, but he has few bearers of His Cross. Many desire His consolation, but… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
“Violence always came too easy to you, that's the problem. It always felt too good. Remember the first time you trod on… — Stephen Kelman Copy Share Image
“Then you know that Sam was the true hero of the tale,” Sanya said. “That he faced far greater and more terrible… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
