Temptation Quotes

• Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction

  John Owen

  Cutting, Exercise, Men

  John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Overcoming Temptation and Sin”, Lulu.com

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• Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  God, Hype, Deception

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• Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

  Joey Adams

  Funny, Life, Birthday

  Joey Adams (1981). “Strictly for laughs”, A & W Publishers, Inc.

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• By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Anniversary, Single, Funny Valentines Day

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

  Mick Jagger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Letting Go

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

  Mae West

  Motivational, Tattoo, Sexy

  My Little Chickadee (motion picture) (1940) See Balzac 1; Clementina Graham 1; Wilde 25; Wilde 53

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• Do not grieve over the temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us first to be tempted by the opposite vice. Therefore, look upon every temptation as an invitation to grow in a particular virtue and a promise by God that you will be successful, if only you stand fast.

  Philip Neri

  Successful, Grieving, Opposites

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• A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.

  C. S. Lewis

  Motivational, Strong, Lying

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• When fleeing the scene of temptation, do not leave a forwarding address.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Fleeing, Addresses, Scene

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• Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

  Billy Sunday

  Doors, Devil, Keyholes

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Simple Life, Littles

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• They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil.

  Paul the Apostle

  Fall, Men, Roots

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  There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

  Mark Twain

  Motivational, Forbidden Love, Self Control

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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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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• We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

  Seneca the Younger

  Passion, Character, Night

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Charles Spurgeon

  Idle, Industrious

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• No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Knows

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Integrity, Law Of Attraction

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.679, 谷月社

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• Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Funny, Marriage

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• There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

  Mark Twain

  Fear, Halloween, Coward

  Following the Equator (1897) ch. 36

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• Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

  Earl Wilson

  Duty, Heard, Temptation Life

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• About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.

  Tom Wilson

  Love, Fun, Sunset

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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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• Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Overcoming, Lions

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