Temptation Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• 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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• A total commitment to anxiously serve the Lord and others is the surest way to overcome temptations of the adversary.

  James M. Paramore

  Commitment, Overcoming, Way

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• When temptation comes your way, name that boastful, deceitful giant “Goliath!” and do with it as David did to the Philistine of Gath.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Names, Giants, Way

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• If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation.

  John Owen

  Prayer, Ifs

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

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• There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Contemplative Life, Statues

  Thomas Merton (1998). “Contemplation in a World of Action: Second Edition, Restored and Corrected”, p.176, University of Notre Dame Pess

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• Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Brother, Integrity, Simple

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• We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Cake, Mma, Tempted

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• It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed around these chances! That was my nature - going from temptation to temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.

  Anne Rice

  Soul, Chance, Sin

  Anne Rice (2003). “Blood Canticle”, Knopf Canada

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• Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.

  Armstrong Williams

  Education, Baby, Children

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• If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Satan, Permit

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.209, Discovery House

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• We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.

  Don Mattingly

  Work Out, Decision, Want

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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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• After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you must not only, if possible, remove the temptation, you must also go back and repent the sin itself. In each case an 'undoing' is required.

  C. S. Lewis

  Errors, Needs, Causes

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• Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how "open" you are, you'll end up surrounded by "yes people." It's hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.

  Tom Peters

  Friends, Believe, Ideas

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.47, Vintage

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• Objectivity and presence of mind are essential in such positions where sacrificial temptations are not always resistable.

  Leonid Shamkovich

  Sacrifice, Presence Of Mind, Objectivity

  Leonid Shamkovich, Eric Schiller (1987). “Saving lost positions”, B. T. Batsford Limited

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• There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Prayer, Singing, Devil

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.123

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• Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Work, Blessed, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings”, p.351

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• Writing an upbeat aphorism is a temptation, but decorum forbids.

  Mason Cooley

  Writing, Aphorism, Upbeat

  "City Aphorisms: Eighth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1991.

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