Temptation Quotes
982 quotes by 687 authors
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Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should…
— Martin Luther
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Your temptations are from the devil and from Hell; but your sufferings and afflictions are from God and Heaven.
— Pio of Pietrelcina
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Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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He, who loves praise, loves temptation.
— Thomas F. Wilson
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If thou least fallen into sin through violent temptations, seek speedily for repentance for it, recovery out of it, and reformation from it.
— Vavasor Powell
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For as a city which has been once besieged and not sacked will ever after be more strong to hold out if it be assaulted…
— George Downame
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This is the great work of a man: always to take the blame for his own sins before God, and toexpect temptation to his last…
— Anthony the Great
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Two great virtues . . . give a man power with the heavens - integrity and purity of character. Let a man possess these, let…
— Wilford Woodruff
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One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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God is good but not safe, and the urge for safe art is often a worldly temptation away from goodness.
— Kenneth Myers
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Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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Every period of life has its peculiar temptations and dangers. But youth is the time when we are most likely to be ensnared. This, pre-eminently,…
— Josiah Johnson Hawes
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Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation
— Jerome Bruner
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My temptation is emotional, and resisting will further my needed weight loss and strengthen my character. Furthermore, nothing tastes as good as thin feels.
— Stephen Covey
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There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.
— John Quincy Adams
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Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
— William Taylor
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There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them;…
— Matthew Henry
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Mortality is, in reality, a very, very short period. It is literally a snap of the fingers compared to an eternity. It is so short…
— Hartman Rector, Jr.
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Beloved youth, you will have your trials and temptations through which you must pass, but there are great moments of eternity which lie ahead. You…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Believers do not surrender. They can continue on their way to the truth because they are certain that God has created them "explorers", whose mission…
— Pope John Paul II
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