TEMPTATION QUOTES III
quotations about temptation
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'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
WILLIAM PENN
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Some Fruits of Solitude
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A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
C. S. LEWIS
Mere Christianity
The beginning of all temptation lies in a wavering mind and little trust in God, for as a rudderless ship is driven hither and yon by waves, so a careless and irresolute man is tempted in many ways.
THOMAS A KEMPIS
The Imitation of Christ
Temptations come to us because we are open to them. Perhaps we don't want to be delivered from temptation, at least certain ones. Sometimes we are like little Richard who was told by his mother to come straight home from school and not to stop at the baseball field. After school, Richard decided to carry his ball and glove with him just in case he was tempted.
RAYMOND MAHER
"Don't sit near the fire if your head is made of butter", The Battlefords News-Optimist, March 16, 2017
Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
MARGARET OLIPHANT
Miss Marjoribanks
Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the temptation.
DOUGLAS JERROLD
The Catspaw
There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
HONORE DE BALZAC
Père Goriot
The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is like the letting out of waters--where a drop can go, a river can go. Whoever yields to temptation, subjects himself to the law of falling bodies.
HORACE MANN
Thoughts
Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.
JAMES JOYCE
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Maxims for Revolutionists
The temptations are everywhere -- on the Internet, in the family medicine cabinet, and on the street.
HATTIE BERNSTEIN
"What are your kids hiding in their rooms?", Boston Globe, February 24, 2017
The temptations are endless, and willpower can only take us so far.
OLAYINKA
"The Real Reasons You Should Stop Procrastinating", Information Nigeria, May 30, 2017
Temptations are meant to deceive us. They are aimed at our weak spots.
RAYMOND MAHER
"Don't sit near the fire if your head is made of butter", The Battlefords News-Optimist, March 16, 2017
The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.
LAURENCE J. PETER
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
There can be no virtue without temptation; for virtue is victory over temptation.
LYMAN ABBOTT
The Theology of an Evolutionist
Temptations lead you to hide from the Lord and you go off with your fault, with your sin, with your corruption, far from the Lord.
POPE FRANCIS
Mass at Santa Marta, February 10, 2017
There is no state so holy, no place so secret that temptations and trials will not come. Man is never safe from them as long as he lives, for they come from within us -- in sin we were born. When one temptation or trial passes, another comes; we shall always have something to suffer because we have lost the state of original blessedness.
THOMAS A KEMPIS
The Imitation of Christ
Most dangerous
Is that temptation that doth goad us on
To sin in loving virtue.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Measure for Measure
Our nature tempts us perpetually; criminal desire is often excited; but sin is not completed till reason consents.
PASCAL
attributed, Day's Collacon
Many a man is virtuous because he is neither clever enough to avoid temptation nor wise enough to yield to it.
EVAN ESAR
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