Quotes about temptation
led option romantic sin temptation
When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome. Harmony Korine
avoid both congress partners temptation urge
We would urge both Congress and our international partners to avoid the temptation to renegotiate the deal,
banks certainty earnings either looking miners relative temptation
With the miners looking shaky, the temptation is to look elsewhere; either for earnings certainty or for relative underperformance, and the banks have that in spades. Michael Birch
struggle people temptation
When I said on national television I still struggle, a reparative therapist called me and said if you'll come into therapy with me I can cure you of your temptations and attractions 100 percent. And then there are the offers of using homosexual pornography within the therapeutic process to help people understand why they're struggling. Alan Chambers
strong temptation virtue
There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues. Charles Baudelaire
temptation chinese succeed
The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed. Bob Parsons
believe temptation chinese
There’s an old Chinese saying that I just love, and I believe it is so true. It goes like this: ‘The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.’
temptation elbows
Temptation: the fiend at my elbow. William Shakespeare
love temptation sin
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
believe temptation wanted
Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
feelings temptation already-gone
For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of. Catherine the Great
feelings temptation mind
to tempt and be tempted are closely allied; and in spite of all the finest moral maxims buried in the mind, when emotion interferes, when feeling makes its appearance, one is already much further involved that one realizes, and I have still not learnt how to prevent its appearance.
thinking laughing temptation
Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb. Catherynne M. Valente
doors temptation devil
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in. Billy Sunday
temptation terrible be-good
Terrible is the temptation to be good. Bertolt Brecht
temptation literature terrible
Temptation to behave is terrible.
temptation wizards hypothesis
What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard. Barbara Hambly
being-yourself inspiration temptation
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses. Brian Tracy
father writing temptation
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
prayer temptation virtue
Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations. Bernard of Clairvaux
temptation i-can
Don't tempt me, I can resist anything but temptation. Bob Hope
temptation deeds wonder
Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted, I sometimes wonder if we shall not find That not by deeds, but by what we've resisted, Our places are assigned. Benjamin Whichcote
decision temptation comedian
It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it. Bob Newhart
fall temptation tempted
'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
writing temptation internet
I'm glad that I didn't have the Internet when I started writing. I started writing when I was 20 and didn't show a word of it to anyone until I was 28. I had the sense to keep it to myself. Now the temptation with blogs and such, they're just getting it out there; maybe it would have been best to keep it to themselves. David Sedaris
writing temptation awful
There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing. David McCullough
temptation virtue
Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue. Agnes Repplier
law soul temptation
Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? Charlotte Bronte
men evil temptation
From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb which says that the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil. Charles Caleb Colton
beautiful temptation use
A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.
temptation wealth snares
Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.
temptation important weakness
One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before. Charles Stanley
temptation sometimes christ
Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ? Charles Spurgeon