Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean de la Bruyere

Anything is a temptation to those who dread it.

Jean Anouilh

Saintliness is also a temptation.

J. K. Rowling

Power was my weakness and my temptation.

Jerry Bridges

The very first temptation in the history of mankind was the temptation to be discontent...that is exactly what discontent(ment ) is - a questioning of the goodness of God.

Jerry Bridges

We must pray constantly for His enabling grace to say no to temptation, of choosing to take all practical steps to avoid known areas of temptation and flee from those that surprise us.

Honore de Balzac

There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.

Pat Conroy

(You) don't leave the chicken to watch the feed.

Oscar Wilde

The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

Park Chan-wook

A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.

Laurence J. Peter

The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.

Neal A. Maxwell

If we entertain temptations, soon they begin entertaining us!

Margaret Atwood

Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?

Margaret Thatcher

The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does poverty.

Margaret Deland

There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.

Oscar Wilde

The only thing I can't resist is temptation.

Lyman Abbott

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Margaret Oliphant

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

Mark Twain

I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

Ovid

Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect.

Ovid

Remove the temptation of idleness and Cupid's bow is useless.

Mary Wortley Montagu

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.

Oswald Chambers

Many of us suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer.

Oswald Chambers

Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.

Oswald Chambers

Sanctification costs to the extent of "an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth and an immense broadening of all our interests in God.

Ellen G. White

Faith in the atonement and intercession of Christ will keep us steadfast and immovable amid the temptations that press upon us in the church militant.

Henri Nouwen

That's the temptation of the devil: "Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!"

Hilaire Belloc

The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To his extreme annoyance, tempted him.

Henry Ward Beecher

Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.

Henry Ward Beecher

Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.

Napoleon Hill

We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.

Mason Cooley

Either offer me something I really like, or stop trying to tempt me.