Quotes
Quotes about Temptation
Good habits result from resisting temptation.
Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
Capacity for joy Admits temptation.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
For years [my wedding ring] has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. â¢Anonymous Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
Yield to temptation; it may not pass your way again.
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?
So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay To have tricked temptation and turned it away, But wait, my friend, for a different day; Wait till you want to want to!
Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep.
Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the temptation.
For I am that way going to temptation, Where prayers cross.
O cunning enemy that, to catch a saint, With saints dost bait thy hook: most dangerous Is that temptation that doth goad us on To sin in loving virtue.
I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a moveable body.
As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist.
