Temptation Quotes

I can resist everything except temptation. Oscar Wilde
Funny Everything Temptation Except Resist
Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope. John Piper
Hope Future God Good You Yourself Darkness Wait Impossible Will Nothing Nothing Is Impossible Way Out Temptation More Blank Argue He Conceive Looks Without Pray Huge Than Quit Ladders Middle Pits Ropes Forward Good Company Company
Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it. Sam Levenson
Tell Find Temptation Lead Just Where Us
Change can be frightening, and the temptation is often to resist it. But change almost always provides opportunities - to learn new things, to rethink tired processes, and to improve the way we work. Klaus Schwab
Work Tired Change Opportunities New Things Way Temptation Rethink Almost New Learn Always Provides Frightening Improve Often Processes Things Resist
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. T. S. Eliot
Temptation Wrong Greatest Reason Deed Right Treason Last
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again. Robert A. Heinlein
Funny Way Temptation Pass Yield May Again Your
The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team. Jocko Willink
Success Morning Discipline Victory Leader Sleeping Easy Paramount Staying Temptation Take Road Always Bed Ultimate Any Team
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. Thomas Merton
Too Settle Temptation Human Biggest Little
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation. Oscar Wilde
Everything Way I Can Temptation Only Yield Get Rid Resist
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. Mae West
Unless Temptation Generally Avoid Resist
Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going. Charles Stanley
Alone Commitment Challenge Criticism Face Long Faithful Rejection Too Way Stay See Temptation Risk Instead Check Involve Safe Friends Going Convenience Which Standing Standing Alone Many Christians
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom Strength Temptation Gain Resist
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
Today Freedom Man Reality Challenge Nationalism Temptation Only No-One True New True Freedom Accept Dominion Different Form Forms Spares Us Aggressiveness Many Slavery
The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. The history of humanity has been a continuing struggle against temptation and tyranny - and very little worthwhile has ever been achieved without pain. Robert Kennedy
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Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in. Billy Sunday
Devil Looking Keyhole Temptation Through Opening Inviting Him Yielding Door
Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis. Michael Ignatieff
Politics Truth People Genocide Madness Political Promises Society Crisis Temptation More Remains Since Beyond End Any Just Difference Form Enduring Land Multicultural Utopia Deeply
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
Life Teacher Forgiveness Me Peace Judge Mind My Life Peace Of Mind Others See Able Temptation Rather Only Reminding Am Than Forgive Them Teachers Resist
Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution. Edwin Louis Cole
God Knowledge Word Temptation Bulwark Persecution Accusation Deception Against Even
I'm here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself. Charles R. Swindoll
Today You Yourself Entitlement Guard Ways Out Promote Find Spirit Restrain Temptation Attention Adversary Any Want Subtle Gain Warn Watch Here
Obedience brings peace in decision making. If we have firmly made up our minds to follow the commandments, we will not have to redecide which path to take when temptation comes our way. James E. Faust
Peace Obedience Path Decision Will Made Our Minds Way Follow Temptation Take Firmly Making Commandments Up Which Decision-Making Brings
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
Soul Stronger Before Energy Every Trial Moral Spirit Weathered Temptation New Makes Than Represents Endured Fund Conquering Right
I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation. Anthony Bourdain
Airlines Though Temptation Various Merchandise Knives Line Been Sell Times Liquor Endorse Automobiles Products Apparel Dozens Resist
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes. E. Stanley Jones
Freedom Mistakes Living Temptation Freedom From Does Nor Mean Victorious
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
People Achieve Some Temptation Never Felt Genuinely Sainthood Saints Probable Human Want Human Beings Much Aspire Who Many Beings
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. John Owen
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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
Strength You Courage Think Tell Weakness Temptation Temptations Terrible Yield Yields Which Really Requires
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