Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
My first film was with Cuba Gooding Jr, 'The Fighting Temptations,' and I had a little part here and there on little… — NeNe Leakes Copy Share Image
“Whenever i see someone fighting me for no reason, I'm always highly impressed that God has instigated his anger against me, just… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
“Oil kindles extraordinary emotions and hopes, since oil is above all a great temptation. It is the temptation of ease, wealth, strength,… — Ryszard Kapuściński Copy Share Image
I am lucky, I don't have aches and pains. I do Pilates regularly, which is a series of stretching exercises, and I… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Heed not Mephistopheles, my children, lest you suffer eternal damnation. When he whispers in your ear, turn away your head and hearken… — Harry Segall Copy Share Image
When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone,… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“Do you live and work here?" Trinity clenched her fist against his chest, her thoughts spinning. "At the ranch?" The corner of… — Cheyenne McCray Copy Share Image
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch… — Ann Radcliffe 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
A delicate balance is required to combat violence perpetrated in the name of a religion, an ideology or an economic system, while… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
For worship is, essentially, the reverse of sin. Sin began (and begins) when we succumb to the temptation, "You shall be as… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
Do not waste the vast majority of your life doing something you hate so that you can spend the small remainder sliver… — Adrian Tan Copy Share Image
...home-schooled students are able to successfully adapt emotionally, interpersonally, and academically to their first, and most challenging, semester in college. That is… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
“But if you happen to be a man, sometime in the future, and you’ve made it this far, please remember: you will… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I won't stick around to see how much temptation I can take. God is not impressed with my ability to stand up… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
To appear to be on the inside and know more than others about what is going on is a great temptation for… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You think that you can judge what's good or evil from whether you enjoy doing it or not. You think that evil… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
The plodding thrift and scrupulous integrity and long-winded patient industry of our business men of the last century are out of fashion… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
You’d get very rich if you thought of yourself as having a card with only twenty punches in a lifetime, and every… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The temptation in any approaching crisis or conflict is, because people haven't got a clue what lies ahead, they're always searching into… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
We always have visions, before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong.… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm,… — George A. Smith Copy Share Image
I hate the whole übermensch, superman temptation that pervades science fiction. I believe no protagonist should be so competent, so awe-inspiring, that… — David Brin Copy Share Image
It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say:- 'Though we know… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
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
It is the saint's duty, and should be their care, not only to believe that God is Almighty, but also to strongly… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
to tempt and be tempted are closely allied; and in spite of all the finest moral maxims buried in the mind, when… — Catherine the Great 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
As to the permanent interest of individuals in the aggregated interests of the community, and in the proverbial maxim, that honesty is… — James Madison Copy Share Image
. . . It is God's plan that those who are to help others spiritually fall into the temptations of mind and… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Character is both formed and revealed by how one deals with everyday situations as well as extraordinary pressures and temptations. Like a… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
People are fascinated with eternal life and physical power - the idea of having no vulnerability. We all feel small and powerless… — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea, and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I know as well as any one, [the devil] is an adversary, whom if we resist, he will fly from us--but I… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
As more money flowed through Washington and as Washington's power to regulate our lives grew, opportunities and temptations for graft, influence peddling… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
We all have vulnerabilities that can sidetrack us from reaching our goals. Recognize the times when you're most likely to give into… — Amy Morin 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 calls you to sell your soul for one, fleeting moment.[..] It makes you ache...you'll make any promise,swear any oath. For one...perfect...unsoiled taste” quote by Sarah MacLean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ce/sarah-maclean-1164_desire_temptation-turns-you-it-makes-you-into-s_425484.png)
![“I know as well as any one, [the devil] is an adversary, whom if we resist, he will fly from us--but I seldom resist him at all; from a terror, that though I may conquer, I may still get a hurt in the combat--soinstead of thinking to make him fly, I generally fly myself.” quote by Laurence Sterne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68d/laurence-sterne-1405_adversaries_i-know-as-well-as-any-one-the-devil-is-a_1653656.jpg)
