TEMPTATION QUOTES IV
quotations about temptation
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No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
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The mother who tries to keep her child away from all temptation simply prepares the boy for a terrible fall when he gets old enough to leave the home. It is not by taking away the bonds, it is by giving strength to the man that he may break the bonds, that he is redeemed. Every man is like a Samson bound by his enemies, and he must acquire the strength within himself to break them.
LYMAN ABBOTT
The Theology of an Evolutionist
Temptations lead you to hide from the Lord and you go off with your fault, with your sin, with your corruption, far from the Lord.
POPE FRANCIS
Mass at Santa Marta, February 10, 2017
The temptations are everywhere -- on the Internet, in the family medicine cabinet, and on the street.
HATTIE BERNSTEIN
"What are your kids hiding in their rooms?", Boston Globe, February 24, 2017
Temptations are meant to deceive us. They are aimed at our weak spots.
RAYMOND MAHER
"Don't sit near the fire if your head is made of butter", The Battlefords News-Optimist, March 16, 2017
Most dangerous
Is that temptation that doth goad us on
To sin in loving virtue.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Measure for Measure
Our nature tempts us perpetually; criminal desire is often excited; but sin is not completed till reason consents.
PASCAL
attributed, Day's Collacon
Many a man is virtuous because he is neither clever enough to avoid temptation nor wise enough to yield to it.
EVAN ESAR
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
G. C. LICHTENBERG
Aphorisms
Powers are developed here until they are capable of higher development in other portions of God's limitless universe; and suffering and temptation discipline the soul for a sphere where temptation shall no more be needed, and where the spirit shall go forward to practice upon what it has learned.
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN
Living Words
The Bible uses the word tests, temptations, and trials almost interchangeable because the same word used for tests, temptations, and trials comes in the Greek word "peirasmos" and means "an experiment, a trial," or "proving" so God doesn't send tests or trials to break us but to strengthen our faith but to also show us how weak or strong it is. God isn't trying to find out something about our faith; He already knows all that there is to know about us. He is interested in our proving to ourselves the depth or shallowness of our faith.
JACK WELLMAN
"Does the Bible Teach God Will Not Give Us More Than We Can Handle?", Patheos, January 5, 2017
If you want to prevent short-term temptations from derailing important long-term goals, you can change the way you think about those temptations. Focusing on the specifics of those temptations--particularly their desirable characteristics--makes it harder to resist those temptations. Thinking about the temptations abstractly, though, makes them less likely to engage your motivation to act. And that helps you to continue to do things that will help you to achieve those long-term goals.
ART MARKMAN
"Note to Self: It Is Easiest to Avoid Abstract Temptations", Psychology Today, April 14, 2017
We think if we can only take the temptation away from men, men will be virtuous. We are mistaken. Men are made virtuous by confronting temptation.
LYMAN ABBOTT
The Theology of an Evolutionist
Every yielding to temptation is a hindrance, not a help, to moral development; but every temptation offers what, rightly employed, is an indispensable means of moral development. For all moral development is through temptation to virtue.
LYMAN ABBOTT
The Theology of an Evolutionist
Satan tempts the ambitious man with a crown, the sanguine man with beauty, the covetous man with a wedge of gold; he provides savory meat, such as the sinner loves.
T. WATSON
attributed, Day's Collacon
The temptation is not here, where you are reading about it or praying about it: it is down in your shop, among bales and boxes, ten-penny nails, and sandpaper.
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN
Living Words
Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted,
I sometimes wonder if we shall not find
That not by deeds, but by what we've resisted,
Our places are assigned.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
"As By Fire"
Temptation always gets hotter the closer we get to it. It would have been hard for Eve to pick the forbidden fruit if she stayed clear of it, say a hundred yards away.
RAYMOND MAHER
"Don't sit near the fire if your head is made of butter", The Battlefords News-Optimist, March 16, 2017
The saints all passed through many temptations and trials to profit by them, while those who could not resist became reprobate and fell away.
THOMAS A KEMPIS
The Imitation of Christ
Temptation would be a lot easier to avoid if we didn't meet it in such gay company.
EVAN ESAR
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