Temptation Quotes And Sayings

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“Power was my weakness and my temptation.”
– J.K. Rowling

“I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.”
– Jacques Derrida

“The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.”
– James A. Michener

“No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.”
– James Allen

“Without temptation the soul cannot grow.”
– James Allen

“There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.”
– James Branch Cabell

“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

“Saintliness is also a temptation.”
– Jean Anouilh

“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

“Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.”
– Jerry Falwell

“Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.”
– Joey Adams

“Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.”
– John Bunyan

“Temptations, when we first meet them, are like a lion that roared at Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.”
– John Bunyan

“Despite the weight of the world on my shoulders, the temptation to stop and smell the supernatural roses tugged on my sleeves a time or two.”
– John Corwin

“Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.”
– John Dryden

“All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.”
– John Locke

“I also think we need to maintain distinctions – the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.”
– John Polkinghorne

“Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.”
– Joseph De Maistre

“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.”
– Josh Owen

“That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.”
– Kenneth Scott Latourette

“If we know anything about man, it’s that he’s not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.”
– Larry McMurtry

“The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.”
– Laurence J. Peter

“We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.”
– Lyman Abbott

“I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.”
– Mae West

“Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?”
– Margaret Atwood

“Knowing was a temptation. What you don’t know won’t tempt you.”
– Margaret Atwood

“Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.”
– Margaret Oliphant

“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.”
– Marianne Moore

“There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.”
– Mark Twain

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