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
Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.
Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
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.
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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.
The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.
Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
The biggest human temptation is... to settle for too little.
Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell
We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!
It is easier to stay out than get out.
I deal with temptation by yielding to it.
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
Jesus was not tempted to see if He would fall. He was tempted to show that He could not fall.
No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop.
A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.
Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two.
Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.
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