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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. -- Thomas Merton
Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution. -- Edwin Louis Cole
Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you. -- Joey Adams
Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction -- John Owen
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. -- Mae West
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. -- Mark Twain
Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong. -- Prince
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in. -- Billy Sunday
It is easier to stay out than get out. -- Mark Twain
Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself. -- Rita Mae Brown
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. -- Oscar Wilde
It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back. -- Mick Jagger
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. -- George Bernard Shaw
God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers. -- William Penn
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. -- T. S. Eliot
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. -- Robert Orben
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation. -- Oscar Wilde
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. -- Oscar Wilde
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. -- William Butler Yeats
Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction. -- John Owen
There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury; and, if he is overcome, you share his guilt. -- Samuel Johnson
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
If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the fruit from the garden! In appearance it may glisten to the eye; but the perishable pleasure of possession quickly avenges the curse of curiosity. -- Friedrich Schiller
Do not grieve over the temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us first to be tempted by the opposite vice. Therefore, look upon every temptation as an invitation to grow in a particular virtue and a promise by God that you will be successful, if only you stand fast. -- Philip Neri
Temptation to behave is terrible. -- Bertolt Brecht
Temptation: the fiend at my elbow. -- William Shakespeare
Temptation hath a music for all ears. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
Temptation out of reach does you no good. -- Craig Johnson
Temptation provokes me to look upward to God. -- John Bunyan
Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse. -- H. L. Mencken
Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray. -- A. B. Simpson
Temptation always starts in your mind, not in circumstances. -- Rick Warren
Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden. -- Jerry Falwell
Temptation is the voice of reason without its clothes on. -- Anthony Marais
Temptation is a test of your relationship, not your self-control. -- Chris Hodges
Temptation is a dress rehearsal for a karmic experience of negativity. -- Gary Zukav
Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin. -- Fulton J. Sheen
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body. -- H. L. Mencken
Temptation is not a sin; it is a call to battle. -- Erwin W. Lutzer
Temptation does not make the sin, it lies ready in the heart. -- Hannah More
Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart. -- William Shakespeare
Temptation is a strong weapon that Satan uses against the children of God -- Sunday Adelaja
Temptation is necessary to make us realize that we are nothing in ourselves. -- Josemaria Escriva
Temptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious -- John Owen
That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it. -- Kathy Griffin
we've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business ... -- Margaret Deland
Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker. -- Toba Beta
Tomorrow's character is made out of today's thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin does not. -- Randy Alcorn
Temptation is impossible for me to resist... Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description. -- Tom Sizemore
Temptation is impossible for me to resist Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description. -- Tom Sizemore
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. -- William Taylor
He has resisted Temptation for Centuries, A stone cold warrior whose frozen heart refuses to thaw- Until Her.. -- Tina St. John
Temptation is God's magnifying glass; it shows us how much work he has left to do in our lives. -- Erwin W. Lutzer
Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't. -- Steve Maraboli
Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality. -- Paulo Coelho
I wish to resist the temptation to kiss...By super magic animals (Song: The Temptation)A visual poem about unfulfilled love... -- Super magic animals
Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb. -- Catherynne M. Valente
The film The Last Temptation of Christ, no matter what its defenders say, was a slap in the face to Christians everywhere. -- Mickey Rooney
Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one. -- Frederica Mathewes-Green
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
Bait is made to look SO good you OVERlook the trap. Whether scratched or scarred you ALWAYS get hurt giving in to Temptation. -- lecrae
The wind cannot overturn a mountain. Temptation cannot touch the man Who is awake, strong and humble, Who masters hiself and minds the law. -- Gautama Buddha
For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation. -- William Penn
Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim - not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good. -- Oswald Chambers
Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and their ways nor pity and prayer for their deliverance. -- John Owen
Temptation turns you. It makes you into something you never dreamed, it presses you to give up everything you ever loved, it calls you to sell your soul for one, fleeting moment. -- Sarah MacLean
The opposite of love? Vice. Temptation. The negative influences that we have. The bad energy that comes around us and makes us do certain things. To me, it's always been a war between the two. -- Kendrick Lamar
Temptation and testing (or a trial) are two sides of the same coin. Satan uses an occasion or a person to tempt us to fall; God uses the same to try us and make us stronger. -- Ruth Graham
I can resist everything except temptation. -- Oscar Wilde
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it. -- Sam Levenson
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes. -- E. Stanley Jones
These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes. -- Jim Sensenbrenner
So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force. -- Daisaku Ikeda
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. -- John Locke
Often the work of the Lord itself may be a temptation to keep us from that communion with Him which is so essential to the benefit of our own souls. -- George Muller
Obedience brings peace in decision making. If we have firmly made up our minds to follow the commandments, we will not have to redecide which path to take when temptation comes our way. -- James E. Faust
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. -- Gerald Jampolsky
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. -- Charles Stanley
Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur. -- Harold Prince
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery. -- Pope John Paul II
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. -- Victoria Secunda
Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis. -- Michael Ignatieff
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. -- Erma Bombeck
God's purpose in creation was to let us prove ourselves. The plan was explained to us in the spirit world before we were born. We were valiant enough there to qualify for the opportunity to choose against temptation here to prepare for eternal life, the greatest of all the gifts of God. -- Henry B. Eyring
Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope. -- John Piper
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. -- Jeremy Lin
dangerous chemistry -- Emily Giffin
Choices enable temptation. -- Toba Beta
Get thee behind me, Satan! -- P. C. Cast
Even paradise had its serpent. -- Alexandra Ivy
Words are the great temptation. -- Marty Rubin
Saintliness is also a temptation. -- Jean Anouilh
I can resist anything except temptation. -- Oscar Wilde
God tests, but he does not tempt. -- Criss Jami
Power was my weakness and my temptation. -- J. K. Rowling
I wonder if pain comes from surrendering or resisting? -- Donna Lynn Hope
Success cannot resist the temptation of consistency and persistence. -- Noel DeJesus
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare. -- John Dryden
When women go wrong, men go right after them. -- Mae West
Many eat that on earth that they digest in hell. -- Thomas Brooks
We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume. -- Nenia Campbell
Our response to temptation reveals the substance of our faith. -- Dillon Burroughs
Believe me...Nothing is bad, just prove it as right -- Alpesh Vasan
believe me...Nothing is bad, just proove it as right -- Alpesh Vasan
Each temptation leaves us better or worse; neutrality is impossible. -- Erwin W. Lutzer
Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery? -- Randy Alcorn
Lead me not into temptation. I can find the way myself. -- Jane Seabrook
Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you. -- Margaret Atwood
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces. -- Will Rogers
Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable? -- Margaret Atwood
When you 'flee' from Potiphar's wife, she starts giving you cold shoulders. -- Steven Chopade
Believe me...Nothing is bad or wrong , just prove it as right -- Alpesh Vasan
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. -- Mae West
What Saint has ever won his crown without first contending for it? -- St. Jerome
The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance. -- Laurence J. Peter

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