Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erwin W. Lutzer

Our response to temptation is an accurate barometer of our love for God.

Jean de La Fontaine

Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.

Grover Cleveland

It is no credit to me to do right. I am never under any temptation to do wrong!

George Bernard Shaw

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Gelett Burgess

The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.

Gena Showalter

I'm highly aware that some impulses are harder to ignore than others. I'm aware that fear of consequences causes us to guard our secrets. But it's our actions when faced with temptation that define who we are. It's our courage in admitting what we've done wrong that makes us forgivable.

Frederick William Faber

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

Christine Feehan

She was temptation wrapped in casual elegance.

Ezra Taft Benson

The moment you begin a serious study of the scriptures, you will find greater power to resist temptation. You will find the power to avoid deception. You will find the power to stay on the straight and narrow path.... When you begin to hunger & thirst after those words, you will find life in greater abundance.

Ezra Taft Benson

When you are tempted to look elsewhere for greener pastures, just remember someone else is probably looking at yours. And if another pasture looks greener, perhaps it is getting better care and attention. Grass is always greener . . . where it is watered.

Francis Chan

I have one reason why you should walk away from that temptation right now. One reason: God. Is. Better.

It's just too accessible. It's too easy. It's too big of a temptation for people.

Tim Donnelly

It was a big temptation to go to Perth,

Jane Porter

The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop or undermine, and destroy.

Frank Herbert

There's a lesson in every temptation.

Frank Herbert

And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.

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.

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.

James L. Buckley

I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them.