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Image of William Shakespeare
Temptation: the fiend at my elbow.
- William Shakespeare
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Image of Tiger Woods
I wanted to. I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled. Thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.
- Tiger Woods
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Image of Jerry Bridges
We must pray constantly for His enabling grace to say no to temptation, of choosing to take all practical steps to avoid known areas of temptation and flee from those that surprise us.
- Jerry Bridges
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Image of Dillon Burroughs
Our response to temptation reveals the substance of our faith.
- Dillon Burroughs
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Image of Zygmunt Bauman
Our consumer-oriented economy wouldn't survive without economic growth. The whole mechanism depends on invention and insinuation of novelties, arousing new wants, seduction and temptation. This is the problem we face - much more than recapitalizing the banks. The question is: Is that kind of economy sustainable?
- Zygmunt Bauman
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Image of Joseph B. Wirthlin
Nephi taught that by clinging to the word of God, as though it be a handrail, we would be able to avoid temptations and not lose our way in darkness. Thus, we would remain on the narrow path.
- Joseph B. Wirthlin
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Image of Erwin W. Lutzer
We cannot say no to temptation without saying yes to something far better.
- Erwin W. Lutzer
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Image of Anne Rice
That was my nature - going from temptation after temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.
- Anne Rice
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Image of Rick Warren
Temptation always starts in your mind, not in circumstances.
- Rick Warren
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Image of Theodore Parker
Great success is a great temptation.
- Theodore Parker
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Image of Samuel Richardson
An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones.
- Samuel Richardson
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Image of Thomas S. Monson
You have a heritage honor it. You have posses a testimony share it. You will face temptations withstand it. You know the truth live it.
- Thomas S. Monson
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Image of Donald Miller
I am human because God made me. I experience suffering and temptation because mankind chose to follow Satan. God is reaching out to me to rescue me. I am learning to trust Him, learning to live by His precepts that I might be preserved.
- Donald Miller
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Image of J. K. Rowling
Power was my weakness and my temptation.
- J. K. Rowling
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Image of David A. Bednar
Very simply, the Spirit of Elijah is the Holy Ghost. The Spirit of Elijah will influence anyone who is involved in this work. That, for a young person in the wickedness in the world in which we live today, is one of the greatest safeguards against the temptations of the adversary. The Spirit of Elijah will not only bless you, it will protect you.
- David A. Bednar
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Image of Ovid
Remove the temptation of idleness and Cupid's bow is useless.
- Ovid
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Image of Agnes Repplier
Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
- Agnes Repplier
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Image of Jean-Paul Sartre
At times discreetly, at times disgustingly, I yielded to the most fatal temptation whenever I could no longer bear it: as a result of impatience, Orpheus lost Eurydice; as a result of impatience, I lost myself.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Image of Henry Ward Beecher
Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Image of Henry Ward Beecher
Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Image of Erwin W. Lutzer
Our response to temptation is an accurate barometer of our love for God.
- Erwin W. Lutzer
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Image of Erwin W. Lutzer
Each temptation leaves us better or worse; neutrality is impossible.
- Erwin W. Lutzer
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Image of William Makepeace Thackeray
If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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Image of Fulton J. Sheen
Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad.
- Fulton J. Sheen
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Image of Fulton J. Sheen
Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin.
- Fulton J. Sheen
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Image of Anne Rice
It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed around these chances! That was my nature - going from temptation to temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.
- Anne Rice
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Image of Ralph Marston
When you do the right thing, enjoy it! When you take positive actions, enjoy them. After all, they are leading you toward positive results. Pat yourself on the back. Truly enjoy the fact that you're making positive progress, and the negative temptations will have no power over you.
- Ralph Marston
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Image of Mark Twain
I deal with temptation by yielding to it.
- Mark Twain
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Image of Gelett Burgess
The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.
- Gelett Burgess
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Image of Oswald Chambers
Sanctification costs to the extent of "an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth and an immense broadening of all our interests in God.
- Oswald Chambers
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Image of Robert Burns
What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
- Robert Burns
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Image of Jean de la Bruyere
Anything is a temptation to those who dread it.
- Jean de la Bruyere
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Image of Pio of Pietrelcina
If the soul would know the merit which one acquires in temptations suffered in patience and conquered, it would be tempted to say: "Lord, send me temptations."
- Pio of Pietrelcina
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Image of Gilbert K. Chesterton
The noble temptation to see too much in everything.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Image of Warren Buffett
Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.
- Warren Buffett
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Image of Nicolas Chamfort
Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.
- Nicolas Chamfort
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Image of Lord Chesterfield
I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.
- Lord Chesterfield
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Image of Harry Browne
I have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies.
- Harry Browne
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Image of Oswald Chambers
Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.
- Oswald Chambers
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Image of Oswald Chambers
Many of us suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer.
- Oswald Chambers
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Image of Margaret Deland
There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.
- Margaret Deland
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Image of Josemaria Escriva
As soon as you willfully allow a dialogue with temptation to begin, the soul is robbed of peace, just as consent to impurity destroys grace.
- Josemaria Escriva
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Image of Josemaria Escriva
Temptation is necessary to make us realize that we are nothing in ourselves.
- Josemaria Escriva
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Image of John Bunyan
Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.
- John Bunyan
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Image of William Jennings Bryan
Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
- William Jennings Bryan
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Image of Grover Cleveland
It is no credit to me to do right. I am never under any temptation to do wrong!
- Grover Cleveland
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Image of Albert Camus
The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.
- Albert Camus
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Image of Pat Conroy
(You) don't leave the chicken to watch the feed.
- Pat Conroy
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Image of Mason Cooley
Either offer me something I really like, or stop trying to tempt me.
- Mason Cooley
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