Temptation Quotes
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The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
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Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.
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I am lucky, I don't have aches and pains. I do Pilates regularly, which is a series of stretching exercises, and I recommend it to anyone of my age because the temptation is not to exercise when you get older. Well, you should.
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The moment you begin a serious study of the scriptures, you will find greater power to resist temptation. You will find the power to avoid deception. You will find the power to stay on the straight and narrow path.... When you begin to hunger & thirst after those words, you will find life in greater abundance.
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By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
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If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel. We're obliged to keep trying to convey meaning through correct sentences. After a while, the good-soldier rigidity of polished prose can begin to seem dull, and it gets harder to resist the temptation of nonsense.
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Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
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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.
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Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.
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I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.
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The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.
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Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
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Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
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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.
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It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once.
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At one time or another, we have all faced the temptation to disconnect by giving someone the silent treatment. After being married to Joel for more than twenty-one years, I have learned that is not the best way to handle a disagreement.
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Ten thousand million nightmares, temptation by the score, I used to get so high, and still I wanted more. You think my time is wasted in search of who I am, I tried so hard to kill the boy inside the man.
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All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
