Temptation Quotes

982 Temptation quotes by 687 unique authors

„I forgive you for stealing my shawl.“ She smiles as he laughs. And then she vanishes. A simple trick of distracting his attention long enough… — Erin Morgenstern
The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval. — Thomas Harris
There is a subtle danger that leads people away from religion, prevents them from submitting to God as their Lord, and ultimately, brings numerous other… — Harun Yahya
If I’ve already thought through a situation and have a response prepared ahead of time in the event temptation rears its ugly head, it is… — Tim Tebow
... the devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for ... — Tucker Max
To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations. — Edward Gibbon
When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are… — Oswald Chambers
I'd never understood how Carlisle was able to do that - ignore the blood of his patients in order to treat them. Wouldn't the constant… — Stephenie Meyer
Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; - and you think that a woman cannot be too little exposed to temptation,… — Anne Bronte
Temptation turns you. It makes you into something you never dreamed, it presses you to give up everything you ever loved, it calls you to… — Sarah MacLean
To stand by yourself -- that was also part of dignity. That way, a person could get through a public flaying with dignity. Galileo. Luther.… — Pascal Mercier
She does not want to feel even the faintest temptation to call his mobile number, as she had done obsessively for the first year after… — Jojo Moyes
Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell — Oprah Winfrey
No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and exploitation. We have… — Margaret Mead
No one is here," Char said. "You need resist temptation no longer." "Only if you slide too." "I'll go first so I can catch you… — Gail Carson Levine
We are not made up only of our light and happiness but also of darkness and sorrow. To deny the darkness of yourself is to… — Laurell K. Hamilton
When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? — Seneca the Elder
If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character,… — James Buckham Kennedy
Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty. — George Eliot
Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock. — Ronald Reagan
Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray. — A B Simpson
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… — C.S. Lewis
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… — C.S. Lewis

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