Temptation Quotes
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There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But that's not how I want to do things anymore. I'm thinking about how can I trust God more. How can I surrender more? How can I bring him more glory? It's a fight. But it's one I'm going to keep fighting.
Jeremy Lin -
It often happens that we pray God to deliver us from some dangerous temptation, and yet God does not hear us but permits the temptation to continue troubling us. In such a case, let us understand that God permits even this for our greater good. When a soul in temptation recommends itself to God, and by His aid resists, O how it then advances in perfection.
Alphonsus Liguori
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Human character is never found 'to enter into its glory,' except through the ordeal of affliction. Its force cannot come forth without the offer of resistance, nor can the grandeur of its free will declare itself, except in the battle of fierce temptation.
James Martineau -
Soul's Castle fell at one blast of temptation, But many a worm had pierced the foundation.
William Allingham -
No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.
Henry Ward Beecher -
There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.
David McCullough -
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
There is always a temptation for governments: see a problem and announce a quick fix.
Charles Kennedy
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You need to gain the confidence that you're doing enough on film. You must resist the temptation to do too much.
Mark Rylance -
The worst form anger can take is that of a parent who feels her or his chance for 'winning my child' is enhanced by 'ruining my ex.' The law has given the most vindictive parent an invitation to play the 'abuse' card. This is the 'Great Temptation.'
Warren Farrell -
I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.
Edward Zwick -
These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.
Jim Sensenbrenner -
I think anyone in a relationship has to deal with temptation if they're being honest with themselves. People don't talk about it very much, but it's very honest. Guys and girls both have temptation.
Andy Grammer -
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
James A. Michener
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You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
Anthony Hope -
A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words
Saint Augustine -
Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell.
Oprah Winfrey -
We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.
Napoleon Hill -
Resist the temptation to subject yourself only to that which re-affirms what you already think.
Jake Tapper -
People are fascinated with eternal life and physical power - the idea of having no vulnerability. We all feel small and powerless in the world at times, so the temptation to be a vampire is compelling.
Alexandra Cassavetes
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Speaking of a future at most only decades away, an experimenter in intelligence control asserted, “I foresee a time when we shall have the means and therefore, inevitably, the temptation to manipulate the behavior and intellectual functioning of all the people through environmental and biochemical manipulation of the brain.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.
Don Mattingly -
Humans cannot reject temptation. When they are plunged into the depths of despair, likened to hell, they will hold on to anything that may help them escape from the situation they are in, even if it's merely a spider's thread, no matter what sort of humans they are.
Yana Toboso -
Wish there was something that I could say or do, I can resist anything but the temptation from you. But I'd rather walk alone than chase you around, I'd rather fall myself then let you drag me on down.
Ben Harper