Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frederick William Faber

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

Harry Browne

I have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies.

Jerry Bridges

The very first temptation in the history of mankind was the temptation to be discontent...that is exactly what discontent(ment ) is - a questioning of the goodness of God.

Jerry Bridges

We must pray constantly for His enabling grace to say no to temptation, of choosing to take all practical steps to avoid known areas of temptation and flee from those that surprise us.

Robert Burns

What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.

Garrison Keillor

Scripture doesn't promise that God will remove temptation, only that you'll be given strength to withstand it.

Francois Fenelon

The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.

Hilaire Belloc

The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To his extreme annoyance, tempted him.

Henry Ward Beecher

Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.

Henry Ward Beecher

Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.

Martin Luther

My temptations have been my Masters of Divinity.

Henri Nouwen

That's the temptation of the devil: "Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!"

Mahatma Gandhi

When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.

Napoleon Hill

We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.

Ellen G. White

Faith in the atonement and intercession of Christ will keep us steadfast and immovable amid the temptations that press upon us in the church militant.

Tiger Woods

I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled, and thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.

Piers Anthony

...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.

Rabindranath Tagore

The danger inherent in all force grows stronger when it is likely to gain success, for then it becomes temptation.

James Anthony Froude

It is ill changing the creed to meet each rising temptation. The soul is truer than it seems, and refuses to be trifled with.

Henry Rollins

Put temptation on the unenjoyment line.

Henry B. Eyring

So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has set before us is not to see if we can endure difficulty. It is to see if we can endure it well. We pass the test by showing that we remembered Him and the commandments He gave us. And to endure well is to keep those commandments whatever the opposition, whatever the temptation, and whatever the tumult around us.

James Richardson

Greater than the temptations of beauty are those of method.

James Russell Lowell

One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.

Marcia Cross

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.

Thomas a Kempis

Temptations discover what you are.

Thomas a Kempis

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

Marianne Moore

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Matthew Henry

There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.

Jonah Hill

Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.

Pope Benedict XVI

A world filled with temptations needs priests who are totally dedicated to their mission. Accordingly, they are asked in a very special way to open themselves fully to serving others as Christ did by embracing the gift of celibacy.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Temptation hath a music for all ears.