“The devil can’t make you do anything! Resistance is not futile. You can overcome temptation. Where” — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
“We all have our temptations, some far greater than yours, and it often takes us all our lives to conquer them.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority. — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind. — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
“You know some religious scholars believe that when faced with overwhelming temptation you should commit a small sin just to relieve the… — Bree Despain Copy Share Image
The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If you are going to be underestimated by people who speak more rapidly, the temptation is to speak slowly and strategically and… — Doris Betts Copy Share Image
Develop discipline of self so that you do not have to decide and re-decide what you will do when you are confronted… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Don’t sign on for more problems than you must. Resist the temptation to involve yourself in other people’s zones of expertise and… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The one thing you can't do is get carried away with that pace and bounce. There's a temptation to charge in and… — Glenn McGrath Copy Share Image
A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
„I forgive you for stealing my shawl.“ She smiles as he laughs. And then she vanishes. A simple trick of distracting his… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
The things we hope in sustain us during our daily walk. They uphold us through trials, temptations, and sorrow. Everyone has experienced… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Where faith is not continually kept in motion and exercised, it weakens and decreases, so that it must indeed vanish; and yet… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Miss Prism: ... And you do not seem to reealize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man coverts himself into… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
How, then, shall a Christian bear fruit? By efforts and struggles to obtain that which is freely given; by meditations on watchfulness,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The besetting sin of able men is impatience of contradiction and of criticism. Even those who do their best to resist the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The event concept was sparked from a shared observation amongst these leading lifestyle brands that the economic rebound has spurred greater liquidity… — Andrea Savage Copy Share Image
Perhaps there has never been a time when we had greater need to pray and to teach our family members to pray.… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I would urge my fellow conservatives to avoid the temptation to crow about it or take credit. — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
Compromise built upon compromise equals failure. Instead, resisting temptation allowed promise upon promise to be built up in my heart, and that… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
One of the more serious temptations which stifles boldness and zeal is a defeatism, which turns us into querulous and disillusioned pessimists,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“You never know what you're made of until temptation comes knocking. The only temptation I've given in to is to have one… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Until we are renewed in the spirit of our mind and illumined in every part, our very virtues are but taught practices… — William Law Copy Share Image
The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail. — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“. . . is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
If you will study the scriptures diligently, your power to avoid temptation and to receive direction of the Holy Ghost in all… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I always loved Little Anthony and the Imperials. They were like the precursors of the Temptations. I loved their music. — Bobby Keys Copy Share Image
