TEMPTATION QUOTES V

quotations about temptation

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

WALTER BAGEHOT

Biographical Studies

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I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame
And every time I pass that way I always hear my name

BOB DYLAN

"Every Grain of Sand"

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To avoid temptation, yield.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's

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As a man purifies his heart, temptation ceases, for when a certain unlawful desire has been taken out of the heart, the object which formerly appealed to it can no longer do so, but becomes dead and powerless, for there is nothing left in the heart that can respond to it.

JAMES ALLEN

Above Life's Turmoil


It is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Rose in Bloom

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An untempted soul may be innocent, but cannot be virtuous, for virtue is the choice of right when wrong presses itself upon us and demands our choosing.

LYMAN ABBOTT

The Theology of an Evolutionist

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In temptations and trials the progress of a man is measured; in them opportunity for merit and virtue is made more manifest.

THOMAS A KEMPIS

The Imitation of Christ


The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.

THOMAS MERTON

No Man Is an Island

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The Devil's subtlest temptations are the ones you yield to without even knowing you've given in.

GLEN DUNCAN

Talulla Rising

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Too little temptation can lead to virtue.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's


The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

OSCAR WILDE

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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The difference between those whom the world esteems as good and those whom it condemns as bad, is in many cases little else than that the former have been better sheltered from temptation.

JULIUS CHARLES HARE

Guesses at Truth

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Every time the enemy throws us off our guard, and we give way to temptation, he gains so much; he weakens us and strengthens himself; when we resist temptation, it strengthens the Saints and weakens the enemy.

BRIGHAM YOUNG

Journal of Discourses

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None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms

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Temptation is woman's weapon and man's excuse.

H. L. MENCKEN

Mencken Chrestomathy

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Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. If one could follow it to its psychological roots, one would, I believe, find that the main motive for "non-attachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.

GEORGE ORWELL

Reflections on Gandhi

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Could'st thou boast, O child of weakness!
O'er the sons of wrong and strife,
Were their strong temptations planted
In thy path of life?

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

What the Voice Said

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Temptation hath a music for all ears.

NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS

"Extract"


Some men flee from temptation, but others just crawl away from it hoping it will overtake them.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


Soul's Castle fell at one blast of temptation,
But many a worm had pierced the foundation.

WILLIAM ALLINGHAM

"Blackberries"

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