Temptation Quotes - Page 14

• If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Business, Might, Chance

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.135, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• In no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not the executive department. ... The trust and the temptation would be too great for any one man.

  James Madison

  War, Men, Would Be

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1826). “The Federalist: On the New Constitution”, p.550

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• I try to avoid the temptation with time as a total indicator for what my possibilities are for the marathon. It's the not the best indicator, but it's more how you feel, how you cover the distance and how you are able to do the training afterward.

  Ryan Hall

  Distance, Training, Trying

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• If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.

  Hans Kung

  Children, Wife, Would Be

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• As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.

  Tom Perrotta

  Drama, Writing, Novel

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• Had (I) been a member of a more popular race, I should have been inclined to yield to the temptation of depending upon my ancestry and my colour to do that for me which I should do for myself. Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort

  Booker T. Washington

  Children, Yield, Race

  Frederick Douglass, Solomon Northup, Willie Lynch, Nat Turner, Sojourner Truth (2017). “100$ REWARD ON MY HEAD – Powerful & Unflinching Memoirs Of Former Slaves: 28 Narratives in One Volume: With Hundreds of Documented Testimonies & True Life Stories: Memoirs of Frederick Douglass, Underground Railroad, 12 Years a Slave, Incidents in Life of a Slave Girl, Narrative of Sojourner Truth...”, p.986, e-artnow

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• Indifference to our neighbour and to God also represents a real temptation for us Christians. Each year during Lent we need to hear once more the voice of the prophets who cry out and trouble our conscience.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Real, Years

  "Make your hearts firm". Pope Francis' message for Lent 2015 from the Vatican, w2.vatican.va. October 4, 2014.

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• And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation's path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.

  Robert Burns

  Night, Mind, Might

  'The Cotter's Saturday Night' (1786) st. 6

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• There is temptation to place too much importance on those things that you're meant to do, and not on to little everyday happinesses. I think if you do what makes you happy on a daily basis, your days gather into years and you have a happy life. I don't want to think too far ahead. I want to make sure that I enjoy tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day. And we'll see what happens.

  Guy Garvey

  Happy Life, Thinking, Years

  "Guy Garvey interview: 'I still think wistfully about my hedonistic years'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2014.

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• What the members of the Church need, more than anything else, are strong testimonies of Jesus Christ and the gospel He restored. They need to know. And they need to know that they know. This is the best protection against the tsunami of temptations and the waves of immorality that crash against us. Perhaps this is just another reason why the first principle of the gospel is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ!

  John Bytheway

  Jesus, Strong, Church

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• The Christian must abstain from sin. It is as simple and direct as that. You have no right to say, 'I am weak, I cannot, and temptation is very powerful.' The answer of the New Testament is, Stop doing it!

  Martyn

  Christian, Powerful, Simple

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• Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Biblical, Prove, All Things

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.304, e-artnow

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• 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.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Adversity, Trying, Trouble

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• Do this and you will be an apostle, a fulfiller of what the Lord chose you for, an accomplisher of your calling as messenger. When at first you succeed in all this, then perhaps the Lord will appoint you as a special ambassador-to save others after you have saved yourself; and to help those who are tempted, after you yourself pass through all temptations, and through all experiences in good and evil.

  Theophan the Recluse

  Humility, Evil, Special

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• 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."

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Soul, Suffering, Merit

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• Many flatter themselves and consider themselves to be good, humble, and meek, but they will discover the contrary under temptation. Do not not become despondent in temptations, then, but give all the more thanks to God that He thus brings you to what is hidden in your heart - the knowledge of yourself - and wishes you to be corrected and be saved.

  Tikhon of Zadonsk

  Heart, Humble, Giving

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• What is impossible to me as an imitator of Christ, becomes perfectly natural as a participant of Christ. It is Only when Christ nullifies the force of my inherent "self' life," and communicates to me a Divine life, that Christian living in its true sense, is at all possible for me.

  F. Huegel

  Christian, Self, Perfectly Natural

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• If the 'self-life' is supreme, Satan does not have to be invited in. The lines are already set for the 'electric' current to flow. Satan is master of ceremonies, though he be apparently non-existent.

  F. Huegel

  Self, Lines, Flow

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• If there is something that you have to do, resist the temptation to do it under duress. Ask yourself, "What's the worst thing that would happen if I didn't do this?" And if you can get away with not doing it at all, don't do it. And then imagine what would it feel like to have this done. Spend a day or two, if you can, just 15 minutes here, 5 minutes here, 2 minutes here, here and here, imagining it completed in a way that pleases you! And then, the next time you decide that you're going to take action about it, the action is going to be a whole lot easier.

  Esther Hicks

  Two, Duress, Done

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• The noble temptation to see too much in everything.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Noble, Too Much, Testing

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• Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Armor, Obscurity, World

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• Capacity for joy Admits temptation.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Joy, Capacity

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.929, Delphi Classics

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• Man has always been dexterous at confusing evil with good. That was Adam's and Eve's problem, and it is our problem today. If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.

  Billy Graham

  Men, Evil, Confusing

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• A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words

  Saint Augustine

  Wind, Sea, Christ

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• Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!

  Philip Roth

  Art, Desire, Idealism

  Philip Roth (1998). “I Married a Communist”, p.230, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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