Quotes about Temptation

11 quotes about Temptation

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older...

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

Quote by Joey Adams about temptation

I think the way you keep from succumbing to that...

I think the way you keep from succumbing to that temptation of Nashville to follow the mainstream is, you have to look inside yourself.

Quote by Brad Paisley about temptation

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...

Quote by Papa John Paul II about temptation

Abstainer a weak man who yields to the temptation of...

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

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about temptation

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the...

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about temptation

Why are we a shadow and not a great tree? Why when we think we are spring, reality shows us we are a late autumn? Because of the fact that God is the Unique Accidental one, is the Primary Event, and everything that follows him is an Intended...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about temptation

Why are men so secretive, why are they afraid of the truth, sometimes even of themselves? Why don't they want to admit that they would want to love with their entire being because this is everything that remains out of this vanity called Life?

Quote by Sorin Cerin about temptation

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

Quote by George Orwell about temptation

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just...

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.

Quote by Jacques Derrida about temptation

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, ...

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Quote by Lyman Abbott about temptation

The sins are caused by temptation, but through free...

The sins are caused by temptation, but through free consent. Otherwise, they are not sins.

Quote by Vasile Bancila about temptation

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