Temptation Quotes

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.

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

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

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

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.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

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

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

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.

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.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

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

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

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

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.

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.

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

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

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.