Temptation Quotes

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it.

The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.

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

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.

The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.

The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world.

It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.

If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.

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

I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.

I can resist everything except temptation.

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.

Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.

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