Temptation Quotes

If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

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.

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.

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.

There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But that's not how I want to do things anymore. I'm thinking about how can I trust God more. How can I surrender more? How can I bring him more glory? It's a fight. But it's one I'm going to keep fighting.

We must resist the temptation of once again turning America into the traditional bogeyman of the left.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

I'd never say no to surgery in the future, because I feel like, as I get older, I'm going to face temptation more.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

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.

There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.