Top 1113 Trials And Temptations Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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

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.

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

You know what, life is full of temptations

No one wants adversity. Trials, disappointments, sadness, and heartache come to us from two basically different sources. Those who transgress the laws of God will always have those challenges. The other reason for adversity is to accomplish the Lord's own purposes in our life that we may receive the refinement that comes from testing. It is vitally important for each of us to identify from which of these two sources come our trials and challenges, for the corrective action is very different.

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

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

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

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

Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations.

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

Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of our self-confidence.

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

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

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

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

Trials teach us what we are.

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

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

Being as it was one of my dreams to sing with one of the world's greatest groups, for me to join 'The Temptations' was a great blessing.

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

Mortality is a school of suffering and trials. We are here that we may be educated in a school of suffering and of fiery trials, which school was necessary for Jesus, our Elder Brother, who, the scriptures tell us, ‘was made perfect through suffering.’ It is necessary that we suffer in all things, that we may be qualified and worthy to rule, and govern all things, even as our Father in Heaven and His eldest son, Jesus.

Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.

My temptations have been my Masters of Divinity.

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

If we entertain temptations, soon they begin entertaining us!

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

By understanding the nuances of the world around you and how to survive the temptations, you can rule anything. Even yourself

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

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

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

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

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

There's trials and tribulations in a band.

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

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

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

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

The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them.

A total commitment to anxiously serve the Lord and others is the surest way to overcome temptations of the adversary.

It is impossible to deny that people in power face more temptations than ordinary citizens.

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

You know what, life is full of temptations.

When I was younger I saw God as a mighty healer who did something for me, but after all these years of valleys and painful trials Jesus has become an ever-present friend who is with me all the time. He has gone from being an historical God to being a living God to me today. I've fallen short many times during these trials and testings, but he has always been faithful. Whenever I've asked him to help me he always has....Jesus is everything and we are nothing.

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

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

What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.

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

I listen to a lot of old stuff like Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, and The Temptations.

There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist

And I don't know where to find Ashley Danfield and all the other lovely commentators who show me live courtroom trials. To me, you know, I'm obsessed with it. Like I think maybe if I wasn't an actor I'd be a litigator. But, you know, it's always just shocking to see what happens in real life because most of the things that you see on those trials if you tried to write them into a TV series you would say oh gosh, no one would believe that would ever happen. But yet they always do in real life.

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

The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan.

I have no problem not listening to the Temptations.

My grandfather was a member of Parliament for 40 years. Obviously we're talking here South Africa, a whites only parliament. I grew up in a family that was very involved with the legal battles against apartheid—the great treason trials in the 1950s and early '60s, and later with the legal resources center that my mother founded. My father was involved with a number of very prominent cases that had political aspects to them, whether it was the inquest into the Sharpeville Massacre, the death of Steve Biko, or one of the trials of Nelson Mandela.

Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.

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

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