Greater Quote by C. S. Lewis Download Open image “The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.” — C. S. Lewis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Greater Higher Inspirational Loses Stakes Temper Temptation
Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim - not towards what I understand as evil,… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive. — Cassandra Clare 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 temptation, and… — Amy Morin Copy Share Image
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Conquer temptations by the patience and prayer. If you oppose them without these, you will fall all the more severely. — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
No temptation, no pressure, no enticing can overcome us unless we allow such. If we make the wrong choice, we have no one to… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
To the one, a little natural moderation and quietness of temper may be sufficient to conduct us: but to the other, we can only… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
“Do you really think ... that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As your temptations become greater, so does your ability to make responsible choices. — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As” — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Our young Marines of today are courageous, willing to make sacrifices, and are marvelous team players. I am confident our Corps, and indeed our… — James T. Conway Copy Share Image
Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is a different ball of wax. I've been trying to say for I don't know how many months now that the traditional… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I think that as a writer your responsibility is to search for and stir up the things that are in this world. There is… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
