They're all so highly educated, you know. Education is a great shield against experience. It offers so much, ready-made and all from… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
If your enemies see that you grow courageous, and that you will neither be seduced by flatteries nor disheartened by the pains… — Henry Suso Copy Share Image
Good and evil, as we term them, are not antagonistic; they are ever found hand in hand. Humanity has never achieved a… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
Suppose that by revenge you might destroy one enemy; yet, by exercising the Christian's temper you might conquer three–your own lust, Satan's… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
I'm highly aware that some impulses are harder to ignore than others. I'm aware that fear of consequences causes us to guard… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
“Mankind, I suppose, is designed to run on—to be motivated by—temptation. If progress is a virtue then this is our greatest gift.… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
There are in truth three states of the converted: the beginning, the middle, and the perfection. In the beginning they experience the… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
I try to avoid the temptation with time as a total indicator for what my possibilities are for the marathon. It's the… — Ryan Hall Copy Share Image
I'm just looking forward to doing these videos with AXE. Doing more directing, collaborating with them, finding ways to kind of like… — Michael B. Jordan Copy Share Image
Many Christians backslide...They are unable to stand against the temptations of the world, or of their old nature. They strive to do… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
The authority and influence of France on the world scene in the 21st century will not depend solely on its modernity and… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The State is competent to assign duties and draw the line between good and evil only in its immediate sphere. Beyond the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Sensibility appears to me to be neither good nor evil in itself, but in its application. Under the influence of Christian principle,… — Hannah More 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
We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century... During… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Integrity is hard work. I do think the Internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
However, there is one great temptation and that is that you can forget that the aim of the writer was to reject… — Ventseslav Konstantinov Copy Share Image
Where there is no free agency, there can be no morality. Where there is no temptation, there can be little claim to… — William H. Prescott Copy Share Image
When you do the right thing, enjoy it! When you take positive actions, enjoy them. After all, they are leading you toward… — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
Temptation turns you. It makes you into something you never dreamed, it presses you to give up everything you ever loved, it… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Since all human governments, like all human individuals, are subject to temptation, especially the temptation to use this God-given role for their… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
When you're a child actor and play the precocious kid, the temptation is to wear leather pants or a cutoff shirt to… — Peter Billingsley Copy Share Image
“And for the first time he understood. What temptation meant. It stood before him, made flesh and wit and intellect and desire,… — Olivia Gates Copy Share Image
There are temptations around you all the time. The trick is to work your way through anxiety or your tiredness or whatever,… — Lisa Ann Walter Copy Share Image
The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I watched our friends' wary, intelligent faces droop at our tale. Their shock was a mere shadow of our own, resembling more… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“God also puts His people in the middle of things for the same reason that He put the tree of temptation in… — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
Whenever I may be tempted to slack up and let the business run for awhile on its own impetus, I picture my… — Harry Gordon Selfridge Copy Share Image
A world of little cares is continually arising, which busy or affluent life knows nothing of, to open the first door to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Taking the money from drug operations and all that sort of stuff is something that goes past what most of us in… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
“Lead us not into temptation' often means, among other things, 'Deny me those gratifying invitations, those highly interesting contacts, that participation in… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The most powerful and courageous heroes I know are those who bite their tongues when justification, validation, temptation, or vengeance would have… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I counsel you, in the words of Jesus Christ, to "watch and pray I always lest ye enter into temptation; for Satan… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“No test or temptation that comes your way is beyond the course of what others have had to face. All you need… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Would you be free from the condemnation of the sins that are past, from the power of the temptations that are to… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Power, such a destructive force. While it's easy to gain, it's not easy to contain the constant temptation that comes with it.… — Alex Cole Copy Share Image
When we were little, we kept close to our mother in a dark alley or if dogs barked at us. Now, when… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
I could go old-school; I listen to a lot of old-school music, like Teddy Pendergrass, the Temptations, people like that. I'm an… — Ace Hood Copy Share Image
