Temptation Quotes
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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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Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
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If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men's failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal's natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income. What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle?
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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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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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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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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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There is always a temptation for governments: see a problem and announce a quick fix.
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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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The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
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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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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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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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Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
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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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There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
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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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Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.
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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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My whole life, I've been a Temptation.
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Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
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The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.
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A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.
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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.
