Temptation Quotes And Sayings

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“It is easier to stay out than get out.”
– Mark Twain

“Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to.”
– Martin Luther

“Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

“Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves.”
– Marvin Olasky

“Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.”
– Mary Wortley Montagu

“Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.”
– Matthew Henry

“It’s obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.”
– Michael Shannon

“Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.”
– Mike DeWine

“The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.”
– Northrop Frye

“Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.”
– Orlando A. Battista

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.”
– Oscar Wilde

“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

“When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship – when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.”
– Oswald Chambers

“What’s the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don’t yield to them?”
– P.G. Wodehouse

“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

“Hard to say what’s right when all I wanna do is wrong.”
– Prince

“We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Hope is a fire more ravenous than the flames of temptation. For if only a portion of it poisons your veins, it is enough to make you stand against ridiculous odds again and again and again.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich

“Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.”
– Rita Mae Brown

“Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.”
– Robert A. Heinlein

“Why comes temptation but for man to meet and master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?”
– Robert Browning

“Temptations are as thick as the leaves of the forest, and no one can be out of the reach of temptation unless he is dead. The great thing is to make people intelligent enough and strong enough, not to keep away from temptation, but to resist it.”
– Robert G. Ingersoll

“Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.”
– Robert Orben

“Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.”
– Robert South

“Just because a feeling is natural does not mean it should be indulged.”
– Roseanna White

“Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we’ll find it.”
– Sam Levenson

“No matter how many sins you make or how slow you travel back toward God’s valley, you are still way ahead of a person who never made a mistake and doesn’t know what it is like to climb out of a pit of shame and rise above their temptations.”
– Shannon L. Alder

“Greatness is earned when the strength of your soul does not fall victim to the wants in this mortal life.”
– Shannon L. Alder

“This much is true: When you are about to affect the lives of hundreds of people, Satan will do everything he can to prevent it from happening. Often pride and anger are his best assassins.”
– Shannon L. Alder

“No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.”
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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