TEMPTATION QUOTES II

quotations about temptation

Temptation quote

Temptation out of reach does you no good.

CRAIG JOHNSON

The Cold Dish

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Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.

CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE

The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland


For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude


We all know what temptations are; we all know because we all have them: many temptations of vanity, of arrogance, of greed, of avarice, so many.

POPE FRANCIS

Mass at Santa Marta, February 10, 2017


When we rise above our temptations and resist them, we exercise self-control. And that's when we experience true freedom and emotional health.

DAVID J. LIEBERMAN

Find Out Who's Normal and Who's Not

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The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

F. H. BRADLEY

Aphorisms


Temptations, though troublesome and severe, are often useful to a man, for in them he is humbled, purified, and instructed.

THOMAS A KEMPIS

The Imitation of Christ

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No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.

GEORGE ELIOT

Romola

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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

MAE WEST

My Little Chickadee

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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.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Temptations are very troublesome; for tempted souls are like the persons we read of that were possessed: sometimes the evil spirit threw them into the fire, and sometimes into the water: so Satan comes sometimes with one temptation, and sometimes with another. Satan hurried their bodies, and he as much hurries the minds of those that are tempted.

WILLIAM NOTCUTT

A Treatise of Temptations


Without temptation the soul cannot grow.

JAMES ALLEN

Above Life's Turmoil

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The serpent is helpless unless he finds an apple to work with.

GEORGE ADE

"The Fable of the Compound Fracture", Hand-Made Fables

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Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that roared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.

JOHN BUNYAN

preface, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

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To reduce temptation, keep your mind occupied with God's Word and other good thoughts. You defeat bad thoughts by thinking of something better. This is the principle of replacement. You overcome evil with good.

RICK WARREN

"What Is the 'Most Spiritually Vulnerable Organ' in the Body?", Christian Post, May 17, 2017


It is ... no doubt, true that thought will not at once produce wisdom. It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

ANTHONY TROLLOPE

The Small House at Allington

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Both at the beginning of creation, and at the beginning of the re-creation, temptation was the first event.

POPE FRANCIS

Mass at Santa Marta, February 10, 2017


On this earth all is temptation.... We must pass on unmoved, while temptations rage around us, as the traveler, overtaken by a storm, simply wraps his cloak more closely about him, and pushes on more vigorously toward his destined home.

FRANCOIS FENELON

Spiritual Progress, Or, Instructions in the Divine Life of the Soul


Temptations are all around you. Don't let them into your heart. Stay close to your divine companion. Listen to what He tells you to do, and act on His promptings.

L. WHITNEY CLAYTON

commencement speech at Brigham Young University, April 7, 2017


God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil, than in many formal prayers.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude

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