Top 581 Tempted Quotes & Sayings

I am not tempted by God but I love his trappings.

I love what I think, and I'm never tempted to believe it.

Temptation may even be a blessing to a man when it reveals to him his weakness and drives him to the almighty Savior. Do not be surprised, then, dear child of God, if you are tempted at every step of your earthly journey, and almost beyond endurance; but you will not be tempted beyond what you are able to bear, and with every temptation there will be a way of escape.

When I do have spare time to write, I'm tempted to spend it napping.

The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?

God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.

You can't become tempted if you just give in a little quicker.

There are quite a few things that the devil could tempt me with... I could be tempted by youth if I was allowed to hold on to all the wisdom that I've gotten. In everything, not just sports. In life. In acting. I'd be tempted by youth only so I could continue doing it a little longer.

When you're tempted to be upset, ask yourself 'Is this worth giving up my joy?'

If someone has an ability to impress an audience there's a tendency to be tempted into doing just that.

I've never been tempted by God but I like his trappings.

And yes, to answer you seriously, I am beginning to be... well, not bored, but tempted; afraid, but tempted. When you've been in pain for a long time, when you wake up every morning with a rising sense of hysteria, then boredom is what you want, marathon sleeps, a silence in yourself.

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

When tempted to do any thing in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public.

The next time you're tempted to groan, you might try to laugh instead.

'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

I was never tempted by the Premier League. It's simply a personal opinion.

The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.

I don't believe anyone really likes paint, unless he's tempted to eat it.

...finally men were saved only through God's son dying for them, and that unless human beings believed this silly, impossible and wicked story they were doomed to hell? Can anyone with intelligence really believe that a child born today should be doomed because the snake tempted Eve and Eve tempted Adam? To believe that is not God-worship; it is devil-worship.

I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.

I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.

Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.

The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To his extreme annoyance, tempted him.

No place, no company, no age, no person is temptation-free; let no man boast that he was never tempted, let him not be high-minded, but fear, for he may be surprised in that very instant wherein he boasteth that he was never tempted at all.

Every Christian in every time and place is going to be tempted by certain forms of heresy. I'm sure I'm tempted by my own.

Sometimes America gets tempted by the glitz and glamour.

I wasn't tempted to have my private parts decorated.

Humility is the safeguard of chastity. In the matter of purity, there is no greater danger than not fearing the danger. For my part, when I find a man secure of himself and without fear, I give him up for lost. I am less alarmed for one who is tempted and who resists by avoiding the occasions, than for one who is not tempted and is not careful to avoid occasions. When a person puts himself in an occasion, saying, I shall not fall, it is an almost infallible sign that he will fall, and with great injury to his soul.

No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.

Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?

You will be tempted by the need to feed yourself.

I am tempted to keep the car in drive, And leave it all behind...

I'm tempted by rubbish food after wins.

If a girl is pretty she will be tempted.

Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from

One percent of people will always be honest and never steal," the locksmith said. "Another one percent will always be dishonest and always try to pick your lock and steal your television. And the rest will be honest as long as the conditions are right - but if they are tempted enough, they'll be dishonest too. Locks won't protect you from the thieves, who can get in your house if they really want to. They will only protect you from the mostly honest people who might be tempted to try your door if it had no lock".

One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.

Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.

Do not be tempted by English roses. Their beauty fades, but their thorns are forever.

I get tempted to do a reality show because I enjoy them so much.

Tempted to type meaningless twaddle all the time on Twitter...with alliteration, no less!

What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.

Every child is innocent because it has not been tempted, but only when we have been tempted and have remained pure, or when we have fallen, repented and reformed, are we virtuous.

We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.

Jesus was not tempted to see if He would fall. He was tempted to show that He could not fall.

It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome.

We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.

It is a great joy to believe that Jesus has been tempted in all points just as we are.

Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of conscience), leads to a wasteland of withered hopes and crying loneliness, empty of God and man: the wilderness in which Satan tempted Christ was not more dreadful than the arid expanse of intellectual vanity deprived of tradition and intuition, where modern man is tempted by his own pride.

The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed.

A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.

There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.

People can so easily be tempted by slackness... and by money.

... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.

You tempt me. I can’t be tempted. I’m not made to be tempted.

You tempt me.I can't be tempted.I'm not made to be tempted,but you,Pagan Moore,you tempt me.From the moment i came for you i was drawn in.Everything about you.."One of his hands left my waist and moved up to gently caress my arm."You make me crazy with need.With want.I didn't understand it at first.But now i know.It's your soul calling to me.Souls mean nothing to me.They aren't supposed to.But yours has become my obsession.

Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers.

I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.

When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.