Top 988 Temptation Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

The silence was always the greates temptation.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Now, there was an anchorite called Timothy in a coenobium. The abbot, having heard of a brother who was being tempted, asked Timothy about him, and the anchorite advised him to drive the brother away. Then when he had been driven away, the brother's temptation fell upon Timothy to the point where he was in danger. Then Timothy stood up before God and said, "I have sinned. Forgive me." Then a voice came which said to him, "Timothy, the only reason I have done this to you is because you despised your brother in the time of his temptation."

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

I can resist everything except temptation.

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.

She was temptation wrapped in casual elegance.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Temptation hath a music for all ears.

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

The future is always present, as a promise, a lure and a temptation.

Temptation is a dress rehearsal for a karmic experience of negativity.

Capacity for joy Admits temptation.

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

The temptation to entertain instead of selling is contagious.

wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to temptation!

Temptation is not a sin; it is a call to battle.

If you don't want temptation to follow you, don't act as if you are interested.

The noble temptation to see too much in everything.

I can't resist temptation of any kind.

Temptation: the fiend at my elbow.

Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

Saintliness is also a temptation.

Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

The best thing there is to do when there is temptation is run.

Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.

My whole life, I've been a Temptation.

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Put temptation on the unenjoyment line.

No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.

The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.

It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once.

I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

Expect temptation to your last breath.

That's the temptation of the devil: "Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!"

When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.

Remove the temptation of idleness and Cupid's bow is useless.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Power was my weakness and my temptation.

Temptation to behave is terrible.

Everyone deals with temptation. It's just there.

Temptation out of reach does you no good.

Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation.

Which is scarier-- lust or temptation?

For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.

Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.

Don't tempt me, I can resist anything but temptation.

Anything is a temptation to those who dread it.

When fleeing the scene of temptation, do not leave a forwarding address.

There's a lesson in every temptation.

The only thing I can't resist is temptation.

Temptation always starts in your mind, not in circumstances.

I resist the temptation to curate my apartment.

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