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

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Cake, Mma, Tempted

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• It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed around these chances! That was my nature - going from temptation to temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.

  Anne Rice

  Soul, Chance, Sin

  Anne Rice (2003). “Blood Canticle”, Knopf Canada

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• Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.

  Armstrong Williams

  Education, Baby, Children

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• If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Satan, Permit

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.209, Discovery House

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• We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.

  Don Mattingly

  Work Out, Decision, Want

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• That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  Men, Command Not, Evil

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• It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.

  Michael Shannon

  Fighting, Order, Evil

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• Lately I was near the beehives and some of the bees flew onto my face. I wanted to raise my hand, and brush them off. 'No,' said a peasant to me, 'do not be afraid, and do not touch them. They will not sting you at all, if you touch them they will bite you.' I trusted him; not one bit me. Trust me; do not fear these temptations. Do not touch them; they will not hurt you.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Hurt, Hands, Faces

  Saint Francis (de Sales) (1995). “Thy Will be Done: Letters to Persons in the World”, p.216, Sophia Institute Press

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• If you do not feel deserving of happiness, consciously or subconsciously, or if you have accepted the idea that happiness is somehow wrong or cannot last, you will not respond appropriately when happiness comes knocking at your door in the form of romantic love. No matter how much you may have waited and cried, you will not welcome love when it arrives-you will find a way to sabotage it. What a challenge to resist this temptation! What an opportunity for true spiritual growth and transformation-to defy your negative feelings and honor the gift that life offers you!

  Nathaniel Branden

  Love, Spiritual, Opportunity

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

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• After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you must not only, if possible, remove the temptation, you must also go back and repent the sin itself. In each case an 'undoing' is required.

  C. S. Lewis

  Errors, Needs, Causes

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• Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how "open" you are, you'll end up surrounded by "yes people." It's hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.

  Tom Peters

  Friends, Believe, Ideas

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.47, Vintage

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

  Leonid Shamkovich

  Sacrifice, Presence Of Mind, Objectivity

  Leonid Shamkovich, Eric Schiller (1987). “Saving lost positions”, B. T. Batsford Limited

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• The authority and influence of France on the world scene in the 21st century will not depend solely on its modernity and cohesion, nor even on the continuity and professionalism of its foreign policy. France will be heeded if it has a message to convey. Faced with the temptations of laissez-faire, France must stand out as the nation with the imagination and determination to pursue an ambition that combines cogency with generosity.

  Jacques Chirac

  Determination, Ambition, Generosity

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• I resisted the temptation to turn around and stick out my tongue in derision at Beliquose. After all, there was no telling when or if we should meet again, and I certainly did not need him saying, 'Ah yes, Poe, the fellow whose trespasses i could have forgiven in their entirety... except for the tongue thing. Yes, for that, you must surely die.'

  Peter David

  Needs, Tongue, Sticks

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

  Gary Zukav

  Negativity, Dresses, Rehearsal

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Jan 22, 2016

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• Unwillingness to accept God's 'way of escape' from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within.

  Jim Elliot

  Rebel, Way, Accepting

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

  Karl Popper

  Promise, Lure

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• Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Education, Learning, Failing

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• The Church is likewise conscious of the responsibility which all of us have for our world, for the whole of creation, which we must love and protect. There is much that we can do to benefit the poor, the needy and those who suffer, and to favour justice, promote reconciliation and build peace. But before all else we need to keep alive in our world the thirst for the absolute, and to counter the dominance of a one-dimensional vision of the human person, a vision which reduces human beings to what they produce and to what they consume: this is one of the most insidious temptations of our time.

  Pope Francis

  Responsibility, Our World, Justice

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• Sometimes the hardest thing to do in a pressure situation is to allow the tension to persist. The temptation is to make a decision, any decision, even if it is an inferior choice.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Choices, Decision

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.104, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• If you will study the scriptures diligently, your power to avoid temptation and to receive direction of the Holy Ghost in all you do will be increased.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Scripture, Study, Ghost

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• No temptation, no pressure, no enticing can overcome us unless we allow such. If we make the wrong choice, we have no one to blame but ourselves.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Choices, Overcoming, Pressure

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• Bait is made to look SO good you OVERlook the trap. Whether scratched or scarred you ALWAYS get hurt giving in to Temptation.

  LeCrae

  Hurt, Giving, Bait

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• The temptation to add features to a program must be resisted as strongly as possible. This requires the dedication of a saint

  Joe Armstrong

  Dedication, Saint, Add

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

  D. A. Carson

  Passion, Sin, Combat

  D. A. Carson (2009). “The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism”, p.358, Harper Collins

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