Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Pat Conroy

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

Neal A. Maxwell

If we entertain temptations, soon they begin entertaining us!

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.

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.

Mark Twain

I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

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.

J. K. Rowling

Power was my weakness and my temptation.

Michael Horton

Faith in Christ is able to endure doubts-it's able to endure temptations-bec ause it faces them, not because it pretends they're not there.

Ralph Neas

Obviously, there's the temptation to sit back and smile, .. But there's so much at stake, we have to do our due diligence.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.

Smokey Robinson

You know what, life is full of temptations

Smokey Robinson

We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

There can be no faith without doubt. No strength without temptation. (Rafael)

John Milton

He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed Not incorruptible of faith, not proof Against temptation.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

By understanding the nuances of the world around you and how to survive the temptations, you can rule anything. Even yourself

Nicolas Chamfort

Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.

John Ruskin

No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.

Marianne Moore

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Mason Cooley

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

Thelma Golden

I resist the temptation to curate my apartment.

Margaret Drabble

I have switched on this modern laptop machine. And I have told myself that I must resist the temptation to start playing solitaire upon it.

James Richardson

Greater than the temptations of beauty are those of method.

James Russell Lowell

One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.

Henry Rollins

Put temptation on the unenjoyment line.

Henry B. Eyring

So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has set before us is not to see if we can endure difficulty. It is to see if we can endure it well. We pass the test by showing that we remembered Him and the commandments He gave us. And to endure well is to keep those commandments whatever the opposition, whatever the temptation, and whatever the tumult around us.

Mahatma Gandhi

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