Energy Quote by William Butler Yeats

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

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

— Margaret of Valois

“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

“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

There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.

— Charles Baudelaire

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

Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.

— John Quincy Adams

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

Temptations come on some people for the cleansing of previous sins, on other for the beautification of their current perfection, and on yet others,…

— Maximus the Confessor

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

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

— Thomas Malthus

“For no temptation (no trial regarded as enticing to sin), [no matter how it comes or where it leads] has overtaken you and laid…

— Joyce Meyer