Temptation Quotes

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

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

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

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.

I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.

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

I think when you're trying to produce a relationship on screen that doesn't actually exist, perhaps sometimes there's a temptation to look at each other more, to touch each other more.

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves.

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.

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.

Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

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

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

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

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.

Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.

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