Temptation Quotes

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Watch constantly against those things which are thought to be no temptations. The most poisonous serpents are found where the sweetest flowers grow. Cleopatra was… — Charles Spurgeon
[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession. — Arthur Conan Doyle
The more pure and chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from which it derives strength to… — Pope Pius XII
The mind creates so many temptations - so alluring they are, so magnetic is their power - that unless you are in the power-field of… — Rajneesh
Remove the temptation of idleness and Cupid's bow is useless. — Unknown Author
I seemed like a baby bird keeping its truly innocent animal lusts hidden under its wing. I was being tempted, not by the desire of… — Yukio Mishima
Have you ever asked yourself why one person is honorable and another dishonorable; why one is honest, another dishonest; why one is moral, another immoral?… — Ezra Taft Benson
Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with… — Saint Augustine
Do not grieve over the temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us first to… — Philip Neri
People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of… — Ilka Chase
It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without… — Samuel Johnson
If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and… — William Allen White
Man must cast out of himself everything which separates him from God. He must will to live the divine life, and he must rise above… — Wallace D. Wattles
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. — William Hazlitt
Great winds and storms help fruit-bearing trees. So also do corruptions and temptations help the fruitfulness of grace and holiness. The storm loosens the earth… — John Owen
There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try… — Saint Augustine
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses. — Brian Tracy
We need strong Christians who can persevere against hardship, who can sustain hope through tragedy, who can lift others by their example and their compassion,… — D. Todd Christofferson
This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in the history of… — Strom Thurmond
Choice is bondage, choicelessness freedom. The moment you choose something, you have fallen in the trap of the world. If you can resist the temptation… — Rajneesh

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