No one is immune to temptation. Not even a hero. Not even a nobody. Not even people like you and me. Lust… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Some black people want to get in touch with their African roots. But then you got some black people that just don't… — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
“Take care of your soul; it will never lose its tournament if Jesus is the coach of your life. He will substitute… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Every teaching position, every missionary position can be held by single people. We welcome to that kind of service people who are… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation's path ye… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
American populism is no stranger to our political life. From the earliest anti-Federalists to William Jennings Bryan, Huey Long, and George Wallace,… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
How different the peace of God from that of the world! It calms the passions, preserves the purity of the conscience, is… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
“Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, might it have its own course, it… — John Owen Copy Share Image
There is good reason to make our decision now to serve the Lord. On this Sunday morning, when the complications and temptations… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
“Emma, calm down. I had to know-" I point my finger in his face, almost touching his eyeball. "It's one thing for… — Anna Banks Copy Share Image
“Every temptation proves a crossroad where we must choose between the high road and the low road. On some occasions it is… — Tad R. Callister Copy Share Image
Had (I) been a member of a more popular race, I should have been inclined to yield to the temptation of depending… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Think about the pressure to "pass" by lying about one's agethat familiar temptation to falsify a condition of one's birth oridentity and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
“One gives way to the temptation, only to rise from it again, afterwards, with a great eagerness to reestablish one's dignity, as… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
The prospects for a coherent, hilarious and consistent American comedy seem to lessen every year, as the poor waterlogged, gassy corpse called… — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
The separation of church and state can sometimes be frustrating for women and men of deep religious faith. They may be tempted… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
'Tis dangerous to think - For who by thinking tempts his jealous Fate, Is straight arraign'd as Traytor to the State, And… — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
hen, there's such a temptation to just constantly write things that are going to make the fans happy. Sometimes it takes a… — Jeff Pinkner Copy Share Image
Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
I have more appreciation for why the Bible avoids fuzzy psychologisms and says simply to the stealer, "Steal no more," and to… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Do not try to find a place free from temptations and troubles. Rather, seek a peace that endures even when you are… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
“Resist the short term temptation of procrastination; the immediate pleasure and relief that it brings does not fair in comparison to the… — Noel DeJesus Copy Share Image
One great remedy against all manner of temptation, great or small, is to open the heart and lay bare its suggestion, likings,… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
“Their glee was greater glee in the fact that he was a good man, than he was any off-the-street kind of a… — John Pontius Copy Share Image
Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? Realize that the doctor's fight against socialized medicine is… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We knew before we came (to earth) that there would be many adverse circumstances to test us: accidents, sickness, and disease to… — Robert E. Wells Copy Share Image
“Entering the foyer, Royale already decided that he would thank Shake once more for being by his side at Keena’s recital. But… — S.B. Redd Copy Share Image
Jesus resisted the temptation of outrage and the quick fix of condemnation. He spent most of his time preparing wineskins before pouring… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
[Political] conventions lend themselves to pandering, as few politicians can resist the temptation to tell a national television audience how well they… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't accommodate any degree of temptation. Prevent sin and avoid having to deal with its inevitable destruction. So, turn it off! Look… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The more we see that any action springs not from the motive of obedience, the more evident is it that it is… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
So if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall!! No temptation has seized you except what is… — Bel Claveria Carig Martinez Copy Share Image
When individual enterprise is free and unhampered, profit-and-loss calculations set precise limits to a businessman's temptations to expand his services... a government… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man?… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
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