Temptation Quotes - Page 5

• To tempt, and to be tempted, are things very nearly allied, and, in spite of the finest maxims of morality impressed upon the mind, whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of, and I have yet to learn how it is possible to prevent its being excited.

  Catherine the Great

  Feelings, Already Gone, Matter

  "The Memoirs of Catherine the Great". Book translated by Markus Cruse and Hilde Hoogenboom, 2005.

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• Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.

  Matthew Henry

  Gay, Skins, Fine

  Matthew Henry (2016). “Bible Commentary - Genesis”, p.68, Bible Study Books

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• Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Fire, Scum

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• Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

  Frederick William Faber

  Victory, Resistance, Moments

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• Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Desire, Way, Overcoming

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• 'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Tempted, One Thing

  William Shakespeare (2014). “The Arden Dictionary Of Shakespeare Quotations”, p.280, A&C Black

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

  Charles Spurgeon

  Idle, Industrious

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• Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Enemy, Castles, Entrances

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.44

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• Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome him, as the wind blows down a weak tree.

  Gautama Buddha

  Blow, Wind, Tree

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• The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood.

  Martin Luther

  Strong, Blood, Devil

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• No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

  James Allen

  Heart, Men, Responding

  James Allen (2016). “Above Life's Turmoil”, p.35, BookRix

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• When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Inspirational, Teacher, Retirement

  Gerald Jampolsky (2009). “Good-Bye to Guilt: Releasing Fear Through Forgiveness”, p.138, Bantam

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• Lent is like a long 'retreat' during which we can turn back into ourselves and listen to the voice of God, in order to defeat the temptations of the Evil One. It is a period of spiritual 'combat' which we must experience alongside Jesus, not with pride and presumption, but using the arms of faith: prayer, listening to the word of God and penance. In this way we will be able to celebrate Easter in truth, ready to renew the promises of our Baptism.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Spiritual, Jesus, Easter

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• Temptation always starts in your mind, not in circumstances.

  Rick Warren

  Mind, Circumstances

  Rick Warren (2015). “The Purpose Driven Life Devotional for Kids”, p.208, Harper Collins

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• Watch the morning watch. Do not see the face of man until you have seen the face of God. Before you enter on the day with its temptations, look up into His face and hide His Word in your heart.

  F.B. Meyer

  Morning, Heart, Men

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• When a man resists sin on human motive only, he will not hold out long.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Men, Long, Sin

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• When tempted, the shortest and surest way is to act like a little child at the breast; when we show it a frightful monster, it shrinks back and buries its face in its mother's bosom, that it may no longer behold it.

  Francois Fenelon

  Mother, Children, Monsters

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.51, Lulu.com

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• The temptation is not here, where you are reading about it or praying about it. It is down in your shop, among bales and boxes, ten-penny nails, and sand-paper.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Reading, Pennies, Nails

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• The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

  Oscar Wilde

  Yield, Law, Sick

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.21, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, Foreign Policy, Psychiatry

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• Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.

  Sam Levenson

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.56, Open Road Media

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• There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But that's not how I want to do things anymore. I'm thinking about how can I trust God more. How can I surrender more? How can I bring him more glory? It's a fight. But it's one I'm going to keep fighting.

  Jeremy Lin

  Fighting, Thinking, Careers

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• All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

  John Locke

  War, Passion, Men

  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding bk. 4, ch. 20, sec. 17 (1690)

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• Virtue is insufficient temptation.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Virtue, Insufficient

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• Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

  Georg Simmel

  Men, Break Through, Gossip

  Georg Simmel (2015). “The Sociology of Secrecy and of Secret Societies”, p.34, Georg Simmel

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