Top 385 Temptations Quotes & Sayings

Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.

It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones.

The devil and temptations also do give occasion unto us somewhat to learn and understand the Scriptures, by experience and practice. Without trials and temptations we should never understand anything thereof; no, not although we diligently read and heard the same.

If we entertain temptations, soon they begin entertaining us!

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Without temptations, it is not possible to learn the wisdom of the Spirit. It is not possible that Divine love be strengthened in your soul. Before temptations, a man prays to God as a stranger. When temptations are allowed to come by the love of God, and he does not give in to them, then he stands before God as a sincere friend. For in fulfilling the will of God, he has made war on the enemy of God and conquered him.

We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be.

Integrity is hard work. I do think the internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it's easier just to perform. So the temptations of social media lead to some dissonance.

The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.

If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between parties, and sell the rights, and violate the liberties of the people. Jurors, on the other hand, are exposed to none of these temptations.

In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.

Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them

To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.

You know what, life is full of temptations.

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

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

There's no doubt that New York held its temptations for any writer - it still does.

There is no man who will not be grieved at the time of his chastisement; and there is not man who will not endure a bitter time, when he must drink the poison of temptations. Without them, it is not possible to obtain a strong will. When he has often experienced the help of God in temptations, a man also obtains strong faith.

When temptations march monotonously in regiments, one waits for to pass.

Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.

The Holy Ghost is the only One who can detect the temptations of Satan, neither our common sense nor our human wisdom can detect them as temptations.

Every brand builder will face a million temptations to obscure, dilute, or confuse his or her brand message. These temptations fall under two general headings: boredom and the desire for growth.

God won't permit temptation beyond your strength. It is true that temptations come to all, but God will give you the graces you need to withstand them, if you ask him to and if you are willing to cooperate with his grace...In God's presence, consider: Do I put up a fight when temptations beset me, or do I give up quickly and surrender myself to them without a struggle? Do I rely on God's grace to conquer temptations, or am I conquered by them?

Do not try to find a place free from temptations and troubles. Rather, seek a peace that endures even when you are beset by various temptations and tried by much adversity.

Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do.

You know what, life is full of temptations

I have no problem not listening to the Temptations.

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

My temptations have been my Masters of Divinity.

Resisted temptations become lost opportunities.

Great winds and storms help fruit-bearing trees. So also do corruptions and temptations help the fruitfulness of grace and holiness. The storm loosens the earth round its roots so the tree is able to get its roots deeper into the earth, where it receives fresh supplies of nourishment. But only much later will it be seen to bring forth better fruit. So corruptions and temptations develop the roots of humility, self-abasement and mourning in a deeper search for that grace by which holiness grows strong. But only later will there be visible fruits of increased holiness.

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

Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations.

If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.

Every Christian is endued with a power whereby he is enabled to resist temptations.

The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.

Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.

Without prayer it is impossible to resist temptations and to keep the commandments.

No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.

As far as R&B, I listen to a lot of old school like the Temptations and Chris Brown.

It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.

If the soul would know the merit which one acquires in temptations suffered in patience and conquered, it would be tempted to say: "Lord, send me temptations."

Temptations are like tramps. Treat them kindly, and they will return bringing others with them. Temptations are never so dangerous as when they come to us in a religious garb.

Temptations come on some people for the cleansing of previous sins, on other for the beautification of their current perfection, and on yet others, as preparation for things to come, except temptations, which are for the increase of a man's faith and virtue, as it was with Job.

I resist my temptations in order to feel i am free.

We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist

There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist

Temptations discover what you are.

Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect.

The whole time I was with 'The Temptations', I was accumulating my own solo recordings.

It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did that for me, for no one can understand Holy Scripture without practice and temptations...I t is not by reading, writing, or speculation that one becomes a theologian. Nay, rather, it is living, dying, and being damned that makes one a theologian.

Objectivity and presence of mind are essential in such positions where sacrificial temptations are not always resistable.

Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.

Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations!