Harder Quote by Catherynne M. Valente

Temptations are like tramps. Treat them kindly, and they will return bringing others with them. Temptations are never so dangerous as when they come…

— Dwight L. Moody

“Life's temptations have the purpose of putting our spiritual integrity to the test. To yield to them, however, gives one a precarious and tormented…

— Anonymous

No one is so good that he is immune from temptation. We will never be entirely free from it. . . . There is…

— Thomas a Kempis

I have found that people who can successfully resist temptation invariably lead depressingly stunted lives.

— C.D. Payne

The foolish acts of others ought to serve more as a lesson to us than an occasion to laugh at those who commit them.

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one.

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.

— Ann Radcliffe

“Do not grieve over temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us first to…

— Anonymous

Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength.

— Margaret of Valois

Never yield to that temptation, which, to most young men, is very strong, of exposing other people's weaknesses and infirmities, for the sake either…

— Lord Chesterfield

Temptations are part of life, part of growing up. We grapple with them often - in some instances for our lifetime - before we…

— Joan D. Chittister

The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes…

— George A. Smith