Temptation Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

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.

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.

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

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 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.