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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
...the temptation, which consisted of a single word written on the cemetary of the defeated: Sleep.
I often long to . . . give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation.
Resist the temptation to subject yourself only to that which re-affirms what you already think.
Those who operate through the Holy Spirit are more equipped to resist temptation.
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
Anyone that has a microphone, that temptation for the voice to be bigger than the message is always there.
What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.
To know Pritkin was to want to kill him, but so far I'd resisted temptation.
The most common trait I have found in all successful people is that they have conquered the temptation to give up.
I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.
After every temptation you will be either closer to God or further from Him.
Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.
We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.
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.
You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
Obviously, there's the temptation to sit back and smile, .. But there's so much at stake, we have to do our due diligence.
Money is emphasized in Scripture simply because our temptation to love it is inexplicably powerful.
It is no credit to me to do right. I am never under any temptation to do wrong!
We cannot say no to temptation without saying yes to something far better.
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.
The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.
Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.
There is always a temptation for governments: see a problem and announce a quick fix.
We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
You don't have to get in or out of a position all at once. Avoid the temptation of wanting to be completely right.
'Honey, I'm Good' is a song about temptation, and we wanted to show what is possible if you can beat it.
O help me Father in heaven to overcome and resist temptation in every form or shape.
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
The people who need to overcome temptation to the highest degree have the hardest time doing it.
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers.
Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.
Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.
Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.
The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.
For they who think they make an end of temptation by yeilding to it, only set themselves on fire the more.
A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.
Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.
Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.
It is too late if we wait until the moment of temptation before making our decision.
There's always the temptation, as a cinematographer, to make the shot look as perfect as possible.
Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation.
When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.
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.
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient.
I would urge my fellow conservatives to avoid the temptation to crow about it or take credit.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell
Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.
I have found that people who can successfully resist temptation invariably lead depressingly stunted lives.
We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.
Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.
Scripture doesn't promise that God will remove temptation, only that you'll be given strength to withstand it.
If we didn't have to stand against temptation, we'd never know our own spiritual strength.
Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. And the results always illusory.
