Circumstances Quote by Aldous Huxley

Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't.

— Steve Maraboli

There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to…

— Saint Augustine

The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes…

— George A. Smith

Temptation is a dress rehearsal for a karmic experience of negativity.

— Gary Zukav

Temptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious

— John Owen

“In every man's life there is something he feels driven to do, something that pricks him at the core of his soul so long…

— Robert Silverberg

Objectivity and presence of mind are essential in such positions where sacrificial temptations are not always resistable.

— Leonid Shamkovich

Temptations come on some people for the cleansing of previous sins, on other for the beautification of their current perfection, and on yet others,…

— Maximus the Confessor

“When a man desires a thing too much, he at once becomes ill at ease. A proud and avaricious man never rests, whereas he…

— Thomas à Kempis

“Every temptation proves a crossroad where we must choose between the high road and the low road. On some occasions it is a trial…

— Tad R. Callister

Temptation may even be a blessing to a man when it reveals to him his weakness and drives him to the almighty Savior. Do…

— F.B. Meyer

to tempt and be tempted are closely allied; and in spite of all the finest moral maxims buried in the mind, when emotion interferes,…

— Catherine the Great