Temptation Quotes
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There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.
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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 slavery.
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Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.
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We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like motoring-don't wait till the last moment before you put on the brakes but put them on, gently and quietly, while the danger is still a good way off.
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And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage...
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When one's function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have spoken, nothing has been said.
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There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do.
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There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
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Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.
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So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.
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'People will challenge you, question you, try to get you off track. Don't listen to the temptation to act out of character.'
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We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.
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Virtue is a positive quality developed by taking a firm stand for the right in temptation, or by the suffering endured in consequence of wrongdoing.
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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.
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In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people. Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.
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There is always a temptation for governments: see a problem and announce a quick fix.
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I'm not an original member, though I'm sort of an original member. I've been on a lot of records and took them to great heights. For them to make me the sixth Temptation is quite an honor.
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Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
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The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
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A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.
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Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
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No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.
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The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.
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My whole life, I've been a Temptation.
