A being without an aim in life, or not possessing the requisite concentration of purpose to assist him in resisting temptation, is… — Karl G. Maeser Copy Share Image
“There has never been any forbidden fruit. Only temptation is divine. To feel the need to vary the object of this temptation,… — André Breton Copy Share Image
Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In temptations against chastity, the spiritual masters advise us, not so much to contend with the bad thought, as to turn the… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Humans cannot reject temptation. When they are plunged into the depths of despair, likened to hell, they will hold on to anything… — Yana Toboso Copy Share Image
“He would be the object lesson, the walking warning to the cadets. What happened when you gave in to temptation. When you… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
If experience teaches anything, it is that what the community undertakes to do is usually done badly. This is due in part… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
“He's pressing me to his chest. I melt. Oh, this is where I want to be I rest my head against him,… — E.L. James Copy Share Image
“Sixsmith, Eva. Because her name is a synonym for temptation: what treads nearer to the core of man? Because her soul swims… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Which is better? - To have surrendered to temptation; listened to passion; made no painful effort - no struggled; - but to… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Most people don’t “choose” fiery tempers or alcoholic binges or torturing prisoners of war or exploiting Third-World workers or dumping toxic chemicals… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
“I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Wasn't it Bertrand Russell who used the phrase 'The superior virtue of the oppressed'? There is always this temptation amongst people that… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
I hate endings. Just detest them. Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster. … The… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
“In answer to modern requests for signs and wonders, Our Lord might say, 'You repeat Satan's temptation, whenever you admire the wonders… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The Christian does not avoid sin to achieve salvation, but rather salvation brings him to a desire not to sin. The closer… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is an ugly sin, repugnant to those who find no temptation in it, as well as to many past offenders who… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's just 'Oh my God, I love the taste of fried oysters on French bread with mayonnaise and an order of… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
I'm not an original member, though I'm sort of an original member. I've been on a lot of records and took them… — Dennis Edwards Copy Share Image
Temptation can be defined as an inducement to do evil. Three powerful forces work together to ruin a believer's character and witness:… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“We said to him: here is your happiness, here is what you spent your whole youth looking for, here is the girl… — Alain-Fournier Copy Share Image
Don't put one foot in your job and the other in your dream, Ed. Go ahead and quit, or resign yourself to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Afflictions, like bills and pikes, make a terrible show when they cannot reach us; but the temptations of prosperity, like unseen bullets,… — George Downame Copy Share Image
It often happens that we pray God to deliver us from some dangerous temptation, and yet that God does not hear us,… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
There's a temptation not to vote at all as a protest, but it's definitely not a protest. In fact, all it does… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
It can be a great temptation to rest on the field and let the opponent have a play without making him pay… — Jim Harbaugh Copy Share Image
Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he… — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
“She didn’t turn back. She knew his eyes were still on her, but she wouldn’t allow herself to look back. One more… — H.C. Roberts Copy Share Image
Do not be tempted to invest in a sample of each golfing invention as soon as it makes its appearance. If you… — Harry Vardon Copy Share Image
If God has called you, the more they block your way, the more that trouble and temptation, the more God's love is… — T. B. Joshua Copy Share Image
They also held that the way to salvation was to give way to lust and temptation in all things. And no greater… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Temptation's something you have to deal with even if you're not famous. It's harder when you're famous because it's a lot more… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
Temptation, if it is not to conquer, must not fall like a bomb against another bomb of instantaneous moral explosions, but against… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We must teach our children that the preservation of liberty, and of an order of society conducive to human dignity, requires that… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
The mind creates so many temptations - so alluring they are, so magnetic is their power - that unless you are in… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
They (the consecrated) are men and woman who can awaken the world. Consecrated life is prophecy. God asks us to fly the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“There was still the temptation to believe the world was a mere trap for human sin. But sin, the way he saw… — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
