Temptation Quotes

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

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

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

I'd never say no to surgery in the future, because I feel like, as I get older, I'm going to face temptation more.

One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.

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.

There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.

These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.

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.

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

Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature.

So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.

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

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.