Temptation Quotes And Sayings

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“People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way to their evil drives.”
– Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

“The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.”
– F.H. Bradley

“Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold forth for them no temptation? Did Jesus suffer in vain?”
– Frank Harris

“Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values – and witnesses.”
– Franklin P. Jones

“What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don’t want to discourage it completely.”
– Franklin P. Jones

“Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.”
– Frederick William Faber

“The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.”
– Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.”
– Georg Simmel

“The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.”
– George A. Smith

“I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Virtue is insufficient temptation.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.”
– George Eliot

“It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.”
– George Eliot

“No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.”
– George Eliot

“It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.”
– George Muller

“Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.”
– George Orwell

“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

“Temptation is a woman’s weapon and man’s excuse.”
– H.L. Mencken

“Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.”
– H.L. Mencken

“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

“No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.”
– 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.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted–the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.”
– Holy Bible

“Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”
– Holy Bible

“He who is not tempted, what does he know? And he who is not tried, what are the things he knows?”
– Holy Bible

“How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to Thy Word. Thy Word I have treasured in my heart, that I may not sin against Thee.”
– Holy Bible

“He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.”
– Horace Mann

“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

“To go into temptation to find how strong you are, is as wise as to go before a mirror, with closed eyes, to find how you look when asleep.”
– Ivan Panin

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