Temptation Quotes

There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But that's not how I want to do things anymore. I'm thinking about how can I trust God more. How can I surrender more? How can I bring him more glory? It's a fight. But it's one I'm going to keep fighting.

We must resist the temptation of once again turning America into the traditional bogeyman of the left.

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

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.

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

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.

We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.

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.

Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

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.

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