Top 1200 Temptation Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

It is no wonder you are tempted; on the contrary, it would be something new if you were not, because man's life is nothing but temptation, and no one is exempt from it, especially those who have given themselves to God; his own Son even passed through this trial. But if it is necessary for everyone, it is also a source of merit for those to whom God grants the grace of turning all things to good, as you do.

One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.

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

Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.

We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.

Each temptation leaves us better or worse; neutrality is impossible.

The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.

There is always a temptation for governments: see a problem and announce a quick fix.

When you fly from temptation, don't leave a forwarding address. Where there's smoke there's fire.

There's always the temptation, as a cinematographer, to make the shot look as perfect as possible.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Temptation is impossible for me to resist Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description.

The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.

It is no credit to me to do right. I am never under any temptation to do wrong!

There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.

Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.

There's always a temptation to get in front of the camera. It's part of my personality.

Every temptation is an offer to doubt God's love and wisdom.

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.

Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution?

The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.

Servitude, in many cases, is not forced upon by the masters, but a temptation of the servants.

Temptation is necessary to make us realize that we are nothing in ourselves.

Every time you defeat a temptation, you become more like Jesus!

If you're a so-called minority writer, the temptation is to write for the majority... I refuse to do that.

I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation.

Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.

...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.

The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.

Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.

We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

To know Pritkin was to want to kill him, but so far I'd resisted temptation.

Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation.

There has always been discouragement, negativism, and temptation in the world because of Lucifer.

I have the financial morals of a goldfish, I can resist everything but temptation.

I wrote Normal Life using concepts that have been helpful to me, and hoping to offer those as accessible tools for thinking differently about the pitfalls trans resistance faces, in particular the temptation to focus on legal equality and the limitations of that approach, and the alternative approaches being taken by racial and economic justice focused trans activists.

Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray.

Only strong characters can resist the temptation of superficial analysis.

The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority.

Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.

I am too impatient to wait for temptation to come to me.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

Anyone that has a microphone, that temptation for the voice to be bigger than the message is always there.

Temptation does not make the sin, it lies ready in the heart.

The greek word for temptation means to test, to try, to prove.

Temptation is impossible for me to resist... Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description.

The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.

Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.

The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.

I have learned that as an artist, I cannot succumb to the temptation to please others.

Resist the temptation to subject yourself only to that which re-affirms what you already think.