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• God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were before. But let a man once see his God down in the arena as a Man-suffering, tempted, sweating, and agonized, finally dying a criminal's death-and he is a hard man indeed who is untouched.

  John Bertram Phillips

  Jesus, Heart, Men

  John Bertram Phillips (1984). “The newborn Christian: 114 readings from J.B. Phillips”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Fighting, Evil, Fighting Evil

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• I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.

  Frances O'Connor

  Academia

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

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• There's so much visible stuff around now, we're tempted to forget that it's usually the invisible that matters most.

  Pico Iyer

  Matter, Stuff, Forget

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The reaction to this album has just been fabulous around the world... and I've had offers to perform from around the world and I'm tempted to do it. I've got itchy lips.

  Herb Alpert

  Albums, World, Fabulous

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• I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily, having some book going all the time, can make it through life. Indeed if I were required to make a sharp division in the very nature of people, I would be tempted to make it there: readers and nonreaders of books... It is astonishing how the presence or absence of this habit so consistently characterizes an individual in other respects; it is as though it were a kind of barometer of temperament, of personality, even of character. Aside from that, for me it constituted something like sanity insurance.

  William Brinkley

  Book, Character, Mean

  William Brinkley (2013). “The Last Ship: A Novel”, p.65, Penguin

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• God uses the opposite situation of each fruit to allow us a choice. You can't claim to be good if you have never been tempted to be bad.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Opposites, Choices

  "The Purpose-driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?". Book by Rick Warren, 2003.

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• Every day God patiently bears with us, and every day we are tempted to become impatient with our friends, neighbors, and loved ones. And our faults and failures before God are so much more serious than the petty actions of others that tend to irritate us! God calls us to graciously bear with the weaknesses of others, tolerating them and forgiving them even as He has forgiven us.

  Jerry Bridges

  Forgiving, Serious, Weakness

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Practice of Godliness”, p.174, NavPress

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• When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.

  Dale Carnegie

  Gratitude, Luck, Why Not

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• We Americans are tempted to distinguish ourselves from other current and former inhabitants of this planet by assuming that we are ruled by progress.

  Michael Dorris

  Progress, Assuming, Currents

  Michael Dorris (1994). “Paper trail: essays”, Harpercollins

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• The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God.

  Bob Jones, Sr.

  Bible, God, Christian

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• Many of us are tempted to find the key in doing, but the answer is actually found in being. It is vital that we are routinely humbled by the reminder that Christian life is grounded, not in what we can do, but what has been done for us and what we need done to us.

  Alistair Begg

  Christian, Keys, Needs

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• Jesus was not tempted to see if He would fall. He was tempted to show that He could not fall.

  J. Vernon McGee

  Christian, Jesus, Fall

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• About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives.

  Margaret Atwood

  Lying, Writing, Poet

  Waterstone's Poetry Lecture, Delivered At Hay On Wye, canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca. June, 1995.

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• I am tempted to say that a doctorate in AI would be negatively useful, but I am not one to hold someone’s reckless youth against them – just because you acquired a doctorate in AI doesn’t mean you should be permanently disqualified.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Mean, Would Be, Youth

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• As society becomes more complex and opaque, as social processes seem more impersonal and autonomous, and as elites of 'experts' become more annoying, more people are tempted to think that some 'they' is manipulating 'us', using, among other dark arts, advertising.

  George Will

  Art, Dark, Thinking

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• So, before you are tempted to give up or get
  discouraged, remember all success is based on long term commitment, faith, discipline, attitude and a few stepping stones along the way. You might not like the stone you are on right now, but it's sure to be one of the stones that lead to great opportunities in the future.

  Jim Rohn

  Giving Up, Attitude, Commitment

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• If... God highly exalted Christ because He humbled Himself, suffered dishonour, was tempted and endured a shameful cross and death for our sake, how will He save, glorify and raise us up if we neither choose humility, nor show love to our fellows, nor gain our souls by enduring temptation (cf. Lk. 21:19), nor follow the saving Guide through the 'strait gate' and along the 'narrow way' leading to eternal life (Mt. 7:14)? To this end we were called, says Peter, the chief Apostle, ' Because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example that we should follow His steps' (I Pet. 2:21).

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Humility, Cfs

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• When I am tempted to complain about God's lack of presence, I remind myself that God has much more reason to complain about my lack of presence.

  Philip Yancey

  Complaining, Reason

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• If you disagree with them you may be tempted to interrupt. But don't. It is dangerous. They won't pay attention to you while they still have a lot of ideas of their own crying for expression. So listen patiently and with an open mind.

  Dale Carnegie

  Expression, Ideas, Mind

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.133, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• The darkness of racial injustice will be dispelled only by the light of forgiving love. For more that three centuries American Negroes have been frustrated by day and bewilderment by night by unbearable injustice, and burdened with the ugly weight of discrimination. Forced to live with these shameful conditions, we are tempted to become bitter and retaliate with a corresponding hate. But if this happens, the new order we seek will be little more than a duplicate of the old order. We must in strength and humility meet hate with love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Humility, Night

  "Loving Your Enemies". Speech delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form of pride was the desire to be better than others. The new, democratic form is the desire not to have anyone better than yourself. It is just as spiritually deadly and does not even carry with it the false pleasure of gloating superiority.

  Peter Kreeft

  Pride, Opposites, Desire

  Peter Kreeft (1990). “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Heaven-- But Never Dreamed of Asking”, p.29, Ignatius Press

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• The Web took off in all its glory because it was a royalty-free infrastructure . . . When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going to end in the U.S.A. If we had a situation in which the U.S. had serious flaws in its Net Neutrality, and Europe did have Net Neutrality, and I were trying to start a company, then I would be very tempted to move.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Moving, Europe, People

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• If you reflect on your life, you may recall times when you couldn't see the value of some person and were tempted to brush him or her off. It takes hindsight to recognize that the very situation you may have seen as an irritating bother turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Wouldn't life be a much more enjoyable and meaningful experience if we decided to look at the difficult people and irritating situations as blessings in disguise? If we look deeply enough, we might see how these experiences as situations that motivate us to grow and change for the better.

  John Templeton

  Meaningful, Adversity, Blessing

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• My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them.

  Alastair Campbell

  Tombstone, Flower, Long Ago

  "The royals are so thick" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2001.

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