TEMPTATION QUOTES II
quotations about temptation
Temptation out of reach does you no good.
CRAIG JOHNSON
The Cold Dish
Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland
For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.
WILLIAM PENN
Some Fruits of Solitude
We all know what temptations are; we all know because we all have them: many temptations of vanity, of arrogance, of greed, of avarice, so many.
POPE FRANCIS
Mass at Santa Marta, February 10, 2017
When we rise above our temptations and resist them, we exercise self-control. And that's when we experience true freedom and emotional health.
DAVID J. LIEBERMAN
Find Out Who's Normal and Who's Not
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
F. H. BRADLEY
Aphorisms
Temptations, though troublesome and severe, are often useful to a man, for in them he is humbled, purified, and instructed.
THOMAS A KEMPIS
The Imitation of Christ
No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.
GEORGE ELIOT
Romola
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
MAE WEST
My Little Chickadee
Temptations are very troublesome; for tempted souls are like the persons we read of that were possessed: sometimes the evil spirit threw them into the fire, and sometimes into the water: so Satan comes sometimes with one temptation, and sometimes with another. Satan hurried their bodies, and he as much hurries the minds of those that are tempted.
WILLIAM NOTCUTT
A Treatise of Temptations
Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Without temptation the soul cannot grow.
JAMES ALLEN
Above Life's Turmoil
The serpent is helpless unless he finds an apple to work with.
GEORGE ADE
"The Fable of the Compound Fracture", Hand-Made Fables
Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that roared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.
JOHN BUNYAN
preface, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
To reduce temptation, keep your mind occupied with God's Word and other good thoughts. You defeat bad thoughts by thinking of something better. This is the principle of replacement. You overcome evil with good.
RICK WARREN
"What Is the 'Most Spiritually Vulnerable Organ' in the Body?", Christian Post, May 17, 2017
It is ... no doubt, true that thought will not at once produce wisdom. 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.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
The Small House at Allington
Both at the beginning of creation, and at the beginning of the re-creation, temptation was the first event.
POPE FRANCIS
Mass at Santa Marta, February 10, 2017
On this earth all is temptation.... We must pass on unmoved, while temptations rage around us, as the traveler, overtaken by a storm, simply wraps his cloak more closely about him, and pushes on more vigorously toward his destined home.
FRANCOIS FENELON
Spiritual Progress, Or, Instructions in the Divine Life of the Soul
Temptations are all around you. Don't let them into your heart. Stay close to your divine companion. Listen to what He tells you to do, and act on His promptings.
L. WHITNEY CLAYTON
commencement speech at Brigham Young University, April 7, 2017
God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil, than in many formal prayers.
WILLIAM PENN
Some Fruits of Solitude