Temptations Quotes
261 quotes by 218 authors
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
— Walter Bagehot
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Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we…
— Robert Bork
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
— Walter Annenberg
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Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work, become easier and…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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In all states of dilemma or of difficulty, prayer is an available source. The ship of prayer may sail through all temptations, doubts and fears,…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
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We build character in order for us to withstand the rigors of combat and resist the temptations to compromise our principles in peacetime. We must…
— Glen E. Morrell
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Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity.
— Cesar Chavez
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The riches of His free grace cause me daily to triumph over all the temptations of the wicked one, who is very vigilant, and seeks…
— George Whitefield
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Our great Pattern hath showed us what our deportment ought to be in all suggestions and temptations. When the devil showed Him "all the kingdoms…
— John Owen
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Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see…
— John Bunyan
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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