Noble Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton Download Open image “The noble temptation to see too much in everything.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Noble Temptation Testing Too much
Every temptation that is resisted, every evil thought that is curbed, every desire that is subdued, every bitter word that is withheld, every noble… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim - not towards what I understand as evil,… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The worst possible thing for any of us - no matter what our temptations, no matter what our mortal inclinations may be - is… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a… — James Buckham Kennedy Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If he's - the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a - is a noble institution I would - I would strongly… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at first… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Following the Noble Path is like entering a dark room with a light in the hand; the darkness will all be cleared away, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
