Temptation Quotes And Sayings

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“Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.”
– Sivanada Saraswati

“We’re all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.”
– Smokey Robinson

“Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn’t.”
– Steve Maraboli

“The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.”
– T.S. Eliot

“People couldn’t become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.”
– Terry Pratchett

“We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.”
– Thomas A. Kempis

“Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.”
– Thomas Boston

“The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.”
– Thomas Malthus

“The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.”
– Thomas Merton

“The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.”
– Thomas Merton

“If I’ve already thought through a situation and have a response prepared ahead of time in the event temptation rears its ugly head, it is that much easier to resist.”
– Tim Tebow

“Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker.”
– Toba Beta

“About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you’re fighting temptation.”
– Tom Wilson

“The devil doesn’t come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you’ve ever wished for.”
– Tucker Max

“There’s one thing you’ll never be delivered from. It’s a ten-letter word called temptation!”
– Ty Adams

“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

“‘I once faced a temptation that was so persistent and so overwhelming that I literally believed my whole world would go dark if I refused to give in to it’, he said. ‘All I could do was scream to the Holy Spirit to keep me from it’.”
– Wesley Hill

“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.”
– Will Rogers

“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

“We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.”
– William Hazlitt

“God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil, than in many formal prayers.”
– William Penn

“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

“‘Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.”
– William Penn

“Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.”
– William Shakespeare

“O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!”
– William Shakespeare

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