Top 1200 Temptation Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

It is a most fearful fact to think of, that in every heart there is some secret spring that would be weak at the touch of temptation, and that is liable to be assailed. Fearful, and yet salutary to think of; for the thought may serve to keep our moral nature braced. It warns us that we can never stand at ease, or lie down in this field of life, without sentinels of watchfulness and campfires of prayer.

The people who need to overcome temptation to the highest degree have the hardest time doing it.

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

Those who operate through the Holy Spirit are more equipped to resist temptation.

I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers.

Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.

O help me Father in heaven to overcome and resist temptation in every form or shape.

Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.

By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world.

I never wanted the temptation to imitate or emulate something that had been done beforehand.

Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.

A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

If we didn't have to stand against temptation, we'd never know our own spiritual strength.

I have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies.

There is no point in praying for victory over temptation if we are not willing to make a commitment to say no to it.

That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it.

Take heed all of you who have at heart mankind's future! Take heed men and women of good will! May the temptation to seek revenge give way to the courage to forgive; may the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death; may trust once more give breath to the lives of peoples.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

We cannot say no to temptation without saying yes to something far better.

It is too late if we wait until the moment of temptation before making our decision.

You don't have to get in or out of a position all at once. Avoid the temptation of wanting to be completely right.

There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.

If you decide that you cannot beat a temptation, what you are really doing is giving yourself permission to be irresponsible.

Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

...the temptation, which consisted of a single word written on the cemetary of the defeated: Sleep.

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

God has defeated Satan through the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Through this overwhelming victory, God has also empowered you to overcome any temptation to sin and has provided sufficient resources for you to respond biblically to any problem of life. By relying on God's power and being obedient to His Word, you can be an overcomer in any situation.

Soul's Castle fell at one blast of temptation, But many a worm had pierced the foundation.

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

We must resist the temptation of once again turning America into the traditional bogeyman of the left.

Scripture doesn't promise that God will remove temptation, only that you'll be given strength to withstand it.

Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.

The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my resume. I find I renounced ice cream for Lent to lose five excess pounds... I have fallen victim to what T.S. Eliot calls the greatest sin: to do the right thing for the wrong reason.

A self-made man, if he is made at all, has already won the battle of life. . . . he has learned to resist. He has learned the value of money, and how to refuse to spend it. He has learned the value of time, and how the conversion of it into useful things will make of his life something worthwhile. He has learned to say no, to say no at the right time and then to stand by it. Without resistance, and the self-denial which it often imposes, there is no real happiness. In the quest for happiness man must learn that temptation resisted strengthens the mind and the soul.

The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.

Obviously, there's the temptation to sit back and smile, .. But there's so much at stake, we have to do our due diligence.

I like to talk to myself ahead of time so when temptation comes, I've already made up my mind that I have the victory.

After every temptation you will be either closer to God or further from Him.

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

We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.

Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient.

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.

I would urge my fellow conservatives to avoid the temptation to crow about it or take credit.

'Honey, I'm Good' is a song about temptation, and we wanted to show what is possible if you can beat it.

The most common trait I have found in all successful people is that they have conquered the temptation to give up.