Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist

Samuel Richardson

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

It's just too accessible. It's too easy. It's too big of a temptation for people.

Kirk Hammett

When you're first starting out, there's always the temptation to hide behind distortion because it lets you get away with murder. But, when it comes to rhythm work, you've gotta back off that gain control a bit, especially if you're playing with another guitarist.

Julia Bacha

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.

Neal A. Maxwell

If we entertain temptations, soon they begin entertaining us!

J. K. Rowling

Power was my weakness and my temptation.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

Oswald Chambers

Many of us suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer.

Oswald Chambers

Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.

Oswald Chambers

Sanctification costs to the extent of "an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth and an immense broadening of all our interests in God.

Pat Conroy

(You) don't leave the chicken to watch the feed.

Oscar Wilde

The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

Frank Herbert

There's a lesson in every temptation.

Frank Herbert

And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.

Jean de la Bruyere

Anything is a temptation to those who dread it.

Jean Anouilh

Saintliness is also a temptation.

Margaret Atwood

Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?

Margaret Thatcher

The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does poverty.

Margaret Deland

There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.

Mark Twain

I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

Honore de Balzac

There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.

Jane Porter

The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop or undermine, and destroy.

Erwin W. Lutzer

We cannot say no to temptation without saying yes to something far better.

Erwin W. Lutzer

Each temptation leaves us better or worse; neutrality is impossible.

Erwin W. Lutzer

Temptation is not a sin; it is a call to battle.

Erwin W. Lutzer

Our response to temptation is an accurate barometer of our love for God.

Gary Bauer

I would urge my fellow conservatives to avoid the temptation to crow about it or take credit.

Fulton J. Sheen

Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad.

Fulton J. Sheen

Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin.

Christine Feehan

She was temptation wrapped in casual elegance.

Jean-Paul Sartre

At times discreetly, at times disgustingly, I yielded to the most fatal temptation whenever I could no longer bear it: as a result of impatience, Orpheus lost Eurydice; as a result of impatience, I lost myself.

Jean de La Fontaine

Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.