Quotes on Temptation

I think in YA there's sometimes a temptation to create heroines who are infinitely resilient and wise and confident because those are the behaviors we want to see teens embrace and maybe we want to see those things in ourselves.

I seemed like a baby bird keeping its truly innocent animal lusts hidden under its wing. I was being tempted, not by the desire of possession, but simply by unadorned temptation itself.

I like to talk to myself ahead of time so when temptation comes, I've already made up my mind that I have the victory.

The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.

You need to gain the confidence that you're doing enough on film. You must resist the temptation to do too much.

I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation.

The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Realize that enough hidden strength lies within you to overcome all obstacles and temptations. Bring forth that indomitable power and energy.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do in a pressure situation is to allow the tension to persist. The temptation is to make a decision, any decision, even if it is an inferior choice.

...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.

Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?

We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist

I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

The authority and influence of France on the world scene in the 21st century will not depend solely on its modernity and cohesion, nor even on the continuity and professionalism of its foreign policy. France will be heeded if it has a message to convey. Faced with the temptations of laissez-faire, France must stand out as the nation with the imagination and determination to pursue an ambition that combines cogency with generosity.

Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how "open" you are, you'll end up surrounded by "yes people." It's hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.

If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation.

I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did that for me, for no one can understand Holy Scripture without practice and temptations...I t is not by reading, writing, or speculation that one becomes a theologian. Nay, rather, it is living, dying, and being damned that makes one a theologian.