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Temptation Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like…
- I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish…
- After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you must not only,…
- We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist
- Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers.
- This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea, and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only dabble and splash,…
- The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.
- A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist…
- Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us…
- What can you ever really know of other people's souls — of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole of creation…
- I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience, etc., don't get…
- No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong…
More Temptation Quotes
- I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself.… — David Attenborough
- It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. — Walter Bagehot
- Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you. — Joey Adams
- All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. — Ambrose Bierce
- Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might… — Theodore Bikel
- For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous… — Erma Bombeck
- People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available… — Katherine Boo
- Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of… — Robert Bork
- I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products… — Anthony Bourdain
- Temptation to behave is terrible. — Bertolt Brecht
- Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself. — Rita Mae Brown