Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. — Margaret Oliphant
Temptation and testing (or a trial) are two sides of the same coin. Satan uses an occasion or a person to tempt us to fall; God uses the same to try us and make us stronger. — Ruth Graham
Bait is made to look SO good you OVERlook the trap. Whether scratched or scarred you ALWAYS get hurt giving in to Temptation. — LeCrae
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. — Mae West
As the worlds getting filled with temptations, were getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle. — Freida Pinto
If you are not desperately hungry to live a holy life, you become easy meat for the Devil. — Enoch Adeboye
Temptation Life Image Quotes
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
Life Temptation Quotes
Once a person steps into sin, the stagnating power of sin becomes activated in the person’s life. — Enoch Adeboye
But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish desires and schemes that plunge them into ruin and destruction. For love of money is the root of all of evil and some having pursued its power, fall from faith and end in sorrow. — Saint Timothy
Little self-denials, little honesties, little passing words of sympathy, little nameless acts of kindness, little silent victories over favorite temptations-these are the silent threads of gold which, when woven together, gleam out so brightly in the pattern of life that God approves. — Frederic Farrar
Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.
Too many people try to do the new job, new spouse, new house, new car thing in 18 months. That's a good way to end up broke. We've got to resist the temptation to catch up with our parents in 18 months. Slow down. You have the rest of your life to play catch up. After all, it's just stuff. — Dave Ramsey
If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be. — William Allen White
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
The riches of His free grace cause me daily to triumph over all the temptations of the wicked one, who is very vigilant, and seeks all occasions to disturb me. — George Whitefield
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge. — Gerald Jampolsky
Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee. — Edward De Bono
Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. — Lyman Abbott
Life Is Too Sweet Quotes
And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. — Willa Cather
Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear. — Henry Van Dyke
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
The trouble with us is that we expect too much from the great happenings, the unusual things, and we overlook the common flowers on the path of life, from which we might abstract sweets, comforts, delights. — Orison Swett Marden
Life is all too wondrous sweet, and the world is so beautifully bewildered; it is the dream of an intoxicated divinity. — Heinrich Heine
What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying past us and running away, to strong to stop, too sweet to lose. — Willa Cather
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
Ah, Aphrodite, if I sing no moreTo thee, God's daughter, powerful as God,It is that thou hast made my life too sweetTo hold the added sweetness of a song.There is a quiet at the heart of love,And I have pierced the pain and come to peace. — Sara Teasdale
All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out. — Albert Camus
Life is too sweet and too short to express our affection with just our thumbs. Touch is meant for more than a keyboard. — Kristin Armstrong
Temptation Quotes
They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil. — Paul the Apostle
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces. — Will Rogers
No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures. — John Bunyan
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials. — Ibn Taymiyyah
Real prayer is communion with God, so that there will be common thoughts between His mind and ours. What is needed is for Him to fill our hearts with His thoughts, and then His desires will become our desires flowing back to Him. — Arthur W. Pink
If God has called you, the more they block your way, the more that trouble and temptation, the more God's love is provoked. Each attempt to stop you asks for more evidence from God. — T. B. Joshua
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.
After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if Satan's temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts to grow in holiness, he'll have an incentive to leave you alone. — Ignatius of Loyola
If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories. — Scott Hahn
The opposite of love? Vice. Temptation. The negative influences that we have. The bad energy that comes around us and makes us do certain things. To me, it's always been a war between the two. — Kendrick Lamar
When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us. — Oswald Chambers
Fighting Temptation Quotes
No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don’t fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best. — Benjamin Carson
If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations! — John Vianney
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation. — Tom Wilson
Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.
Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with the trials and temptations of this world that will be brought on by the change in your life and to persevere to the very end in the midst of these things. — Saint Augustine
Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know. — Arsene Wenger
All suicides have the responsibility of fighting against the temptation of suicide. Every one of them knows very well in some corner of his soul that suicide, though a way out, is rather a mean and shabby one, and that it is nobler and finer to be conquered by life than to fall by one's own hand. — Hermann Hesse
Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time.
One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy. — John Gardner
The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It's the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect--but, nearly invariably, the stupidest. — Isaac Asimov
Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves. — Marvin Olasky
God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender. — Walter Annenberg
Resist Temptation Quotes
C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist. — Philip Yancey
Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and good for us in the long run, not what we want to do right now. It's central, in fact, to civilisation. — Roy Baumeister
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses. — Brian Tracy
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? — Ronald Reagan
I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the temptation too." "I have a hard time keeping my hands off you without that added bonus. — Becca Fitzpatrick
It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must resist this temptation. — Hyman Rickover
Failure are part of life. If you don't fail, you don't learn. If you don't learn you'll never change.
She wants to feel your strength. She wants to feel your ability to resist her. — Corey Wayne
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? — Seneca The Elder
Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear. — Wayne Dyer
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. — James Branch Cabell
Trials And Temptations Quotes
Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife. — Pope Leo I
If your enemies see that you grow courageous, and that you will neither be seduced by flatteries nor disheartened by the pains and trials of your journey, but rather are contented with them, they will grow afraid of you. — Henry Suso
Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity. — Alexander Crummell
Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. — James Buckham Kennedy
His Majesty [the Lord] . . . rewards great services with trials, and there can be no better reward, for out of trials springs love for God. — Teresa of Avila
Trials are nothing else but the forge that purifies the soul of all its imperfections. — Magdalena de Pazzi
The devil and temptations also do give occasion unto us somewhat to learn and understand the Scriptures, by experience and practice. Without trials and temptations we should never understand anything thereof; no, not although we diligently read and heard the same. — Martin Luther
Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear. — Boyd K. Packer
True Christians are assured that no temptation (or trial) shall happen to them but what they shall be enabled to bear; and that the grace of Christ shall be sufficient for them. — Roger Sherman
Tempt You Quotes
God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it. — Paul the Apostle
If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you. — John Vianney
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future. — Deepak Chopra
Do not be tempted to invest in a sample of each golfing invention as soon as it makes its appearance. If you do, you will only complicate and spoil your game - and encumber your locker with useless rubbish. — Harry Vardon
It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship. — C. S. Lewis
Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment. — Og Mandino
The world needs you. It doesn't need you at a party having read a book about how to appear smart at parties - these books exist, and they're tempting - but resist falling into that trap. The world needs you at the party starting real conversations, saying, 'I don't know,' and being kind. — Charlie Kaufman
When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner. — Joyce Meyer
Chaos is impatient. It's random. And above all it's selfish. It tears down everything just for the sake of change, feeding on itself in constant hunger. But Chaos can also be appealing. It tempts you to believe that nothing matters except what you want. — Rick Riordan
Character is the ability to consistently live in harmony with your values. Even when external and internal pressure is tempting you not to. It's also about having the mental flexibility to update your values as you grow and evolve. — Rangan Chatterjee
Avoiding Temptation Quotes
Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you. — Joey Adams
Trying to avoid something can make you want it even more. — Turkish Proverbs
Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking. — Francis Crick
You don't have to get in or out of a position all at once. Avoid the temptation of wanting to be completely right. — Jack D. Schwager
It’s all about sticking to your plan and experiencing feelings as they arise. If you are unwilling to feel your feelings, the temptation is to avoid them by jumping off your system — Ed Seykota
The best way to resist temptation is to avoid it. Prevention is far, far better than repentance. — Spencer W. Kimball
They (the consecrated) are men and woman who can awaken the world. Consecrated life is prophecy. God asks us to fly the nest and to be sent to the frontiers of the world, avoiding the temptation to 'domesticate' them. This is the most concrete way of imitating the Lord. — Pope Francis
To those men and women in business, remember the ultimate end of your work: to make a better product, to create better lives. I ask you to plan for the longer term and avoid that temptation of quick and easy paper profits. — George H. W. Bush
I try to avoid the temptation with time as a total indicator for what my possibilities are for the marathon. It's the not the best indicator, but it's more how you feel, how you cover the distance and how you are able to do the training afterward. — Ryan Hall
Don't accommodate any degree of temptation. Prevent sin and avoid having to deal with its inevitable destruction. So, turn it off! Look away! Avoid it at all costs. Direct your thoughts in wholesome paths. Remember your covenants and be faithful in temple attendance. — Dallin H. Oaks
Tempt Me Quotes
O World, try to deceive someone else. Are you trying to tempt me or attract me? No way! I divorce you irrevocably. Your time is short and you are insignificant. Alas! The provision is little, the journey is long and the way is lonely. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep. — Meg Greenfield
Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will my soul do thy lord? Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom. Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus? Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris. (It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery) — Christopher Marlowe
Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss. — Abba Eban
She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men. — Jane Austen
The Diabolical sometimes assumes the aspect of the Good, or even embodies itself completely in its form. If this remains concealedfrom me, I am of course defeated, for this Good is more tempting than the genuine Good. — Franz Kafka
I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. — George Bernard Shaw
Some people say that you should not tempt fate and for them I cannot disagree, but I never learned anything from playing it safe. I say fate should not tempt me. — Mary Chapin Carpenter
I am of a different mind ten times in the course of a day. But I resist the devil, and often it is with a fart that I chase him away. When he tempts me with silly sins I say, 'Devil, yesterday I broke wind too. Have you written it down on your list? — Martin Luther
But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble. — Carl Sagan
You Tempt Me Quotes
I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I was tempted to say, "On teabags, I used to save them. — J. K. Rowling
It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question. — Kate Winslet
People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway. — Tim Vine
Don't untie me," she said, "no matter what happens or how much I plead. I'll want to go straight over the edge and drown myself." "Are you trying to tempt me?" "Ha-ha. — Rick Riordan
You must talk to me, Caravaggio. Or am I just a book? Something to be read, some creature to be tempted out of a loch and shot full of morphine, full of corridors, lies, loose vegetation, pockets of stones. — Michael Ondaatje
To you I belong.My heart beats only for you.No other will tempt me,from this day and beyond.To you I belong. — Gena Showalter
I was known for being a bit of a clown. I remember my dad got me aside and said, "Just remember, everybody likes a clown, but nobody pays him." I've often been tempted to call him and say, "Remember how you told me...?" "Yeah?" "Yes, they do." — Mel Gibson
The road is not a problem. It's not any more tempting. People don't come up with giant bags of drugs or gallons of alcohol and say, 'You've got to do this.' It happens to me more at home. — Anthony Kiedis
You tempt me. I can’t be tempted. I’m not made to be tempted. — Abbi Glines
Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!” “Tempting,” Percy called down. — Rick Riordan
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. — Ezra Taft Benson
The next sentence is one of the most important spiritual truths you will ever learn: God develops the fruit of the Spirit in your life by allowing you to experience circumstances in which you're tempted to express the exact opposite quality. Character development always involves a choice, and temptation provides that opportunity. — Rick Warren
If the 'self-life' is supreme, Satan does not have to be invited in. The lines are already set for the 'electric' current to flow. Satan is master of ceremonies, though he be apparently non-existent. — F. Huegel
God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers. — William Penn
Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare. — William Blake
Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency. — Dinesh D'Souza
At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death. — Cesare Pavese
We must learn to do more with temptation than just bear it - we must learn to use it. The secret of using temptation, and turning it to our advantage, is one of life's greatest secrets. Once we have learned it we are unbeatable and unbreakable. — Selwyn Hughes
Christ's whole life on earth was the assertion and example of true manliness — the setting forth in living act and word what man is meant to be, and how he should carry himself in this world of God — one long campaign in which the temptation stands out as the first great battle and victory. — Thomas Hughes
There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends. — Boris Yeltsin
Some people are tempted most strongly at the beginning of their spiritual life, others near the end. Some are troubled all their lives. Still others receive only light temptation. Such things are decided by God, and we can trust his wisdom. — Thomas a Kempis
PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude. — Ambrose Bierce
The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems. — Lee H. Hamilton
So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay To have tricked temptation and turned it away, But wait, my friend, for a different day; Wait till you want to want to! — Edmund Vance Cooke
There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues. — Thomas Merton
A being without an aim in life, or not possessing the requisite concentration of purpose to assist him in resisting temptation, is like a cork floating upon the water, driven hither and thither by every wind that blows. — Karl G. Maeser
As you lose your life in the service of Father in Heaven's children, Satan's temptations lose power in your life. — Richard G. Scott
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. — William Taylor
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
Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage. — Laura Schlessinger
The road is a fun place, and it's a great place to get out there and explore the country. But as far as the road life with the 'rock n' roll temptations,' there's not much of that with me. — Scotty McCreery
Neither the victories of the Olympic Games nor those achieved in battles make the man happy. The only victories that make him happy are those achieved against himself. Temptations and tests are combats. You have beaten one, two, many times; still fight. If you defeat at last you will be happy your entire life, as if you have always defeated. — Epictetus
In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of service; a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself. — Vincent Nichols
A world of little cares is continually arising, which busy or affluent life knows nothing of, to open the first door to distress. Hunger is not among the postponable wants; and a day, even a few hours, in such a condition is often the crisis of a life of ruin. — Thomas Paine
Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two. — George Eliot
Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse. — Robert Herrick
Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light. — William Shakespeare
He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. — Horace Mann
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