Temptation Quotes - Page 25

• It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.

  D. A. Carson

  Passion, Sin, Combat

  D. A. Carson (2009). “The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism”, p.358, Harper Collins

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• Realize that enough hidden strength lies within you to overcome all obstacles and temptations. Bring forth that indomitable power and energy.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Lying, Overcoming, Energy

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• Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers.

  C. S. Lewis

  Looks, Facts, Honest

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.39, Harper Collins

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• This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea, and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only dabble and splash, careful not to get out of my depth and holding on to the lifeline which connects me with my things temporal.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sea, Swim, Depth

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.39, Harper Collins

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• Prayer gives us strength for great ideals, for keeping up our faith, charity, purity, generosity; prayer gives us strength to rise up from indifference and guilt, if we have had the misfortune to give in to temptation and weakness. Prayer gives us light by which to see and to judge from God's perspective and from eternity. That is why you must not give up on praying!

  Pope John Paul II

  Prayer, Giving Up, Light

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• Temptation is impossible for me to resist Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description.

  Tom Sizemore

  Jobs, Hollywood, Impossible

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

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• I hate being moved. I hate that man who came in. So self-righteous, so cruel. He made fun of me, that's why I cried. You never did that. You led me into temptation by your - politeness.

  Peter Ustinov

  Fun, Hate, Men

  "The Loser: A Novel". Book by Peter Ustinov, 1960.

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• America's Christian conservative movement is confronted with this divide: small-government advocates who want to practice their faith independent of heavy-handed government versus big-government sympathizers who want to impose their version of 'righteousness' on others through the hammer of law.... Our movement must avoid the temptations of power and those who would twist the good intentions of Christian voters to support policies that undermine freedom and grow government.

  Dick Armey

  Christian, Independent, Government

  "Christians and Big Government - Why faith requires freedom". FreedomWorks (freedomworks.org), October 12, 2006.

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• Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect.

  Ovid

  Bows, Leisure, Cupid

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• Gaming is a vice the more dangerous as it is deceitful; and, contrary to every other species of luxury, flatters its votaries with the hopes of increasing their wealth; so that avarice itself is so far from securing us against its temptations that it often betrays the more thoughtless and giddy part of mankind into them.

  Henry Fielding

  Gambling, Luxury, Vices

  Henry Fielding (1988). “An Enquiry Into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers and Related Writings”, p.92, Wesleyan University Press

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• A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.

  Helen Rowland

  Men, Cheerful, May

  Helen Rowland (2017). “A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.59, Litres

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• Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Soul, Connections, Sells

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1913). “Political speeches. Speeches on foreign lands. Educational and religiouus speeches. Miscellaneous speeches”

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• Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

  Agnes Repplier

  Virtue

  Agnes Repplier (1920). “Points of Friction”

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• All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome.

  George Whitefield

  Heaven, Affliction, Earth

  George Whitefield (1832). “Sermons”, p.758

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• Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Ignorance, Vices, Pleasure

  Ann Radcliffe (1820). “The romance of the forest, by the authoress of 'A Sicilian romance'.”, p.93

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• When we rise above our temptations and resist them, we exercise self-control. And that's when we experience true freedom and emotional health.

  David J. Lieberman

  Exercise, Emotional, Self

  David J. Lieberman (2010). “Find Out Who's Normal and Who's Not: The Proven System to Quickly Assess Anyone's Emotional Stability”, p.55, David Lieberman

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• I ain't no drinking man, but temptation got the best of me.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Drinking, Men, Alcohol

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• As the worlds getting filled with temptations, were getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.

  Freida Pinto

  Fickle, World, Filled

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• Ten thousand million nightmares, temptation by the score, I used to get so high, and still I wanted more. You think my time is wasted in search of who I am, I tried so hard to kill the boy inside the man.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Boys, Men, Thinking

  Song: Can You Hear Them?, Album: Down To Earth

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• Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.

  John Milton

  Break Through, Shining, Virtue

  John Bell, Joseph Addison, John Banks, Michael Arne, John Brown (1796). “British Theatre: Caractacus”

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• Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.

  Jonah Hill

  Culture, Kind, Pops

  "Jonah Hill: 'People think I'm a horny, foul-mouthed teenager. But I'm 26 and very ambitious'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2010.

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• Resisted temptations become lost opportunities.

  Margaret Ayer Barnes

  Opportunity, Lost, Lost Opportunity

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• Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Multicultural Society, Land, Differences

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• Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient.

  Ian Mcewan

  Past, Thinking, Helping

  Ian McEwan, Ryan Roberts (2010). “Conversations with Ian McEwan”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

  Raymond Carver

  Imagination, Fiction, Littles

  Raymond Carver, Marshall Bruce Gentry, William L. Stull (1990). “Conversations with Raymond Carver”, p.41, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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