Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers.

C. S. Lewis

We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist

Charles R. Swindoll

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 Spurgeon

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

Ayn Rand

Consider the reasons which make us certain that we are right, but not the fact that we are certain. If you are not convinced, ignore our certainty. Don't be tempted to substitute our judgment for your own.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.

Arthur Koestler

The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan.

When we find ouselves in some grave danger we must not lose courage but firmly trust in God, for where there is the greatest danger, there is also the greatest help from Him who wants to be called our 'Help' in times of peace and in times of tribulation.

David A. Bednar

Very simply, the Spirit of Elijah is the Holy Ghost. The Spirit of Elijah will influence anyone who is involved in this work. That, for a young person in the wickedness in the world in which we live today, is one of the greatest safeguards against the temptations of the adversary. The Spirit of Elijah will not only bless you, it will protect you.

David Ogilvy

The temptation to entertain instead of selling is contagious.

Billy Graham

There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan's first temptation of Adam and Eve: "Ye shall be as gods." (Gen. 3:5)

Samuel Richardson

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

Theodore Parker

Great success is a great temptation.

Albert Camus

The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.

Alexander Pope

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Don Herold

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

Craig Thompson

Which is scarier-- lust or temptation?

Anne Rice

That was my nature - going from temptation after temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.

Anna Held

It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once.

Ambrose Bierce

TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.

Brennan Manning

The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.

Earl Wilson

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

Edna O'Brien

I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation.

Bobby Keys

I always loved Little Anthony and the Imperials. They were like the precursors of the Temptations. I loved their music.

Dan Ariely

The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.

Craig Johnson

Temptation out of reach does you no good.

Barbara Hambly

What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.

William Shakespeare

Temptation: the fiend at my elbow.

Charles Caleb Colton

Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.

Charles Stanley

One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.

Charles Spurgeon

Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?

Bob Parsons

The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.

Bob Hope

Don't tempt me, I can resist anything but temptation.