Temptation Quotes - Page 21

• It is no credit to me to do right. I am never under any temptation to do wrong!

  Grover Cleveland

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• Resist the temptation to compare yourself to others. This is crucial in order to be able to manifest whatever you want.

  Wayne Dyer

  Order, Want, Able

  "Become A Mighty Manifester An Interview with Wayne Dyer". Interview with Randy Peyser, www.randypeyser.com.

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• Beware of the temptation to see yourself as unfairly treated.

  Wayne Dyer

  Treated

  "Become A Mighty Manifester An Interview with Wayne Dyer". Interview with Randy Peyser, www.randypeyser.com.

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• I don't take drugs nor drink since 2000 and I must say that I don't think about it anymore, although like every person that was addicted and has money - I know that this can lead to temptation.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Thinking, Drug, Drink

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• Prayer by its nature is communion and union of man with God; by its action it is the reconciliation of man with God, the mother and daughter of tears, a bridge for crossing temptations, a wall of protection from afflictions, a crushing of conflicts, boundless activity, the spring of virtues, the source of spiritual gifts, invisible progress, food of the soul, the enlightening of the mind, an axe for despair, a demonstration of hope, release from sorrow, the wealth of monks.

  Ignatius Bryanchaninov

  Crush, Daughter, Mother

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• God has great plans for you, directed towards helping you do what Jesus Christ did when He was on earth. This requires you do resist temptation vigorously, with special confidence in the assistance of His Divine Goodness. Courage then, Monsieur. Be faithful to Him, and the Divine Goodness will be favorable to you.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Jesus, Special

  Saint Vincent De Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: August 1646-March 1650”

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• It is no wonder you are tempted; on the contrary, it would be something new if you were not, because man's life is nothing but temptation, and no one is exempt from it, especially those who have given themselves to God; his own Son even passed through this trial. But if it is necessary for everyone, it is also a source of merit for those to whom God grants the grace of turning all things to good, as you do.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Son, Men

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• Scandal often does as much harm to the listeners as to those who devise it, even if it were to do no other harm than disturb the mind, as it does, and give rise to temptations to speak or write about it to others.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Writing, Giving

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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• Out of the temptation of Hate, and burned by the fire of Despair, triumphant over Doubt, and steeled by Sacrifice against Humiliation, . . . He bent to all the gibes and prejudices, to all hatred and discrimination with that rare courtesy which is the armor of pure souls. . . . he simply worked, inspiring the young, rebuking the old, helping the weak, guiding the strong.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Strong, Hate, Sacrifice

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois”, p.138, Oxford University Press

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• Often the work of the Lord itself may be a temptation to keep us from that communion with Him which is so essential to the benefit of our own souls.

  George Muller

  Soul, Essentials, Benefits

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• Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.

  James L. Buckley

  Running, Soul, Favors

  James L Buckley (2010). “Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State”, p.90, Encounter Books

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• Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal responsibilities, federated into larger units in such a way that the temptation to abuse great power should not arise.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Responsibility, Power, Men

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• If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Writing, Heart, Animal

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• I have one reason why you should walk away from that temptation right now. One reason: God. Is. Better.

  Francis Chan

  Reason Why, Should, Walks

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• The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Stakes, Temper

  C. S. Lewis (1964). “Reflections on the Psalms”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to be mastered.

  Laird Barron

  Fear, Curiosity, Cognition

  Laird Barron (2007). “The Imago Sequence”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• All temptations can be handled easily when we know how, because no temptation is a temptation at all unless we are entertaining it.

  Sterling W Sill

  Entertaining

  "That ye might have life".

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• If we entertain temptations, soon they begin entertaining us!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Entertaining, Ifs

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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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• Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Merit, Chiefs

  Samuel Johnson (1966). “Johnsonian miscellanies”, Constable

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• Money, big money (which is actually a relative concept) is always, under any circumstances, a seduction, a test of morals, a temptation to sin.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Money, Tests, Seduction

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• The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.

  Matthew Simpson

  Spring

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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