Temptation Quotes - Page 38

• In my dreams I gorge on chocolates, I roll in chocolates, and their texture is not brittle but soft as flesh, like a thousand mouths on my body, devouring me in fluttering small bites. To die beneath their tender gluttony seems the culmination of every temptation I have ever known.

  Joanne Harris

  Dream, Chocolate, Gorges

  Joanne Harris (2000). “Chocolat”, p.188, Penguin

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• Whoever has the power to label others as evil is automatically, or reflexively, the good person. Good people label bad people as evil. And once you do that, then it demonizes them. You don't negotiate with evil. You don't sit down at the table with the devil and say, "Okay, let's work this out." What you want to do is destroy evil. Every Catholic kid every night says, or should say, "Lead us not into temptation, deliver us from evil." And so you've got to go to God to help you deal with evil rather than your State Department or your negotiators.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Kids, Night, People

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• It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must resist this temptation.

  Hyman Rickover

  Successful, Work Out, Doubt

  "The Rickover Effect". Book by Theodore Rockwell, 1992.

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• Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it-the quality of temptation.

  Hannah

  People, Evil, Quality

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• The command of a large sum is a dangerous temptation to a national administration. Though accumulated at their expense, the people rarely, if ever profit by it: yet in point of fact, all value, and consequently, all wealth, originates with the people.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  People, Administration, Facts

  Jean Baptiste Say, Charles Robert Prinsep (1857). “A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.487

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• Temptation out of reach does you no good.

  Craig Johnson

  Doe

  Craig Johnson (2013). “The Walt Longmire Mystery Series Boxed Set”, p.236, Penguin

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• For most of us, the classic test of willpower is resisting temptation, whether the temptress is a doughnut, a cigarette, a clearance sale, or a one-night stand. When people say, "I have no willpower," what they usually mean is, "I have trouble saying no when my mouth, stomach, heart, or (fill in your anatomical part) wants to say yes.

  Kelly McGonigal

  Heart, Mean, Night

  Kelly McGonigal (2011). “The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It”, p.14, Penguin

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• The temptation to use mathematics is irresistible for economists. It appears to convey the appropriate air of scientific authority and precision to economists' musings.

  Paul Ormerod

  Air, Use, Mathematics

  "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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• For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of "zero tolerance" and the faith that virtually all problems from drug addiction to lousy teaching can be solved by pouring on the punishment. Even without a Commander in Chief who pledges to rid the world of evildoers, smoke them out of their holes and the like, we would be vulnerable to the temptation to brush aside frustrating complexities and relieve intolerable fear (at least for the moment) by settling on one or more scapegoats to crush. To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.

  Ellen Willis

  Crush, Zero, Mistake

  "Dreaming of War". "The Nation", October 15, 2001.

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• We must now surrender to the obligation to understand and to care. We must surrender ourselves to becoming conscious, thinking members of the human race. We must put down the temptation to powerlessness and surrender to the questions of the moment.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Knowledge, Thinking, Race

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• For any filmmaker who has just released a film and who is experiencing some measure of success, the temptation can be great to respond to every screening request that comes in.

  Julia Bacha

  Film, Measure Of Success, Screening

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• Give me, instead of beauty's bust,
  A tender heart, a loyal mind,
  Which with temptation I could trust,
  Yet never linked with error find.

  George Darley

  Heart, Errors, Giving

  George Darley (1908). “The complete poetical works of George Darley now first collected, reprinted from the rare original editions in the possession of the Darley family”

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• The uncut sheets of colored glass are really seductive, awesome, and unarguably lovely things. Naturally, the temptation to cut and damage all that pristine beauty is too much for me to resist.

  Judith Schaechter

  Cutting, Glasses, Seductive

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• Our Bill of Rights, the most precious part of our legal heritage, is under subtle and pervasive attacks... In the struggle between our world and Communism, the temptation to imitate totalitarian security methods must be resisted day by day... When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.

  Earl Warren

  Wisdom, Struggle, Rights

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• The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations... As women were lowered in the moral scale because of their identification with her at the very bottom of the pit, so they cannot rise themselves save as they succeed in lifting her with whose sins they are weighed.

  Jane Addams

  Father, Writing, Atheism

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• This coarse and insulting way of regarding woman, as though they existed merely to be the safety-valves of men's passions, and that the best men were above the temptation of loving them, has been the source of unnumbered evils.

  Annie Besant

  Passion, Men, Safety

  Annie Besant (2012). “Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History”, p.200, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Scripture doesn't promise that God will remove temptation, only that you'll be given strength to withstand it.

  Garrison Keillor

  Promise, Scripture, Given

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• Fill your life with service to others. As you lose your life in the service of Father in Heaven’s children, Satan’s temptations lose power in your life. Because your Father in Heaven loves you profoundly, the Atonement of Jesus Christ makes that strength possible. Isn’t it wonderful? Many of you have felt the burden of poor choices, and each of you can feel the elevating power of the Lord’s forgiveness, mercy, and strength.

  Richard G. Scott

  Jesus, Children, Father

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• In any trial, in any bitter situation, you are not alone, you are not helpless, you are not a victim. You have a tree, a cross, shown to you by the Sovereign God of Calvary. Whatever the trial or temptation, it is not more than you can bear. It is bearable. It can be handled. You can know as Joseph knew, "You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive" (Genesis 50:20).

  Kay Arthur

  Order, People, Evil

  Kay Arthur (1994). “Beloved: From God's Heart to Yours”, Harvest House Pub

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• The most common trait I have found in all successful people is that they have conquered the temptation to give up.

  Peter Lowe

  Giving Up, Successful, People

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• If God has called you, the more they block your way, the more that trouble and temptation, the more God's love is provoked. Each attempt to stop you asks for more evidence from God.

  T. B. Joshua

  Block, Love Is, Way

  "Why I Don’t Have Church Branches Everywhere – TB Joshua". dailypost.ng. August 25, 2014.

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• It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Blessed, Together, Earth

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• That acknowledgment of weakness which we make in imploring to be relieved from hunger and from temptation is surely wisely put in our daily prayer. Think of it, you who are rich, and take heed how you turn a beggar away.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Prayer, Thinking, Weakness

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.5638, Delphi Classics

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• Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.

  Jonathan Swift

  Vanity, Natural, Objects

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• Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Son, Thinking, Riches

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.135

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