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" Quotes and Sayings About temptation

Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.

Defend Excuse Never Resist
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“Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.”

Defend Yourself Make Excuses
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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.

Challenge Question Track Listen
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I have one reason why you should walk away from that temptation right now. One reason: God. Is. Better.

Have Reason Should Walk
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The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

Biggest Human Little Settle
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I'm here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself.

Adversary Attention Entitlement Gain
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So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.

Continue Exist Force Long
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

Deed Greatest Last Reason
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The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

After Always First Friend
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

Good Temptations Vices Without
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If you can outlast the temptation satan will bring your way and the provocation man will throw at you, then God will bring you to POWER

Power Provocation Satan God
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For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

Been Companion Dinner Done
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All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

Error Interest Liable Many
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
Everything Get I Can Only
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

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

Bad Because Found Me
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The biggest temptation I believe is to feel comfortable, to feel like you've worked through all of that here on Earth, and are satisfied with this life.

Believe Biggest Comfortable Earth
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What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?
Use Great City Temptation
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Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

Dangerous Doth Loving Most
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The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

Against Better Blow Depends
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If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

About Animal Animals Belong
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Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations!

Poet Unhealthier Regular Temptations
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Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

Find I Can Lead Me
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Often the work of the Lord itself may be a temptation to keep us from that communion with Him which is so essential to the benefit of our own souls.
Work Lord Temptation Keep us
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When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Appraisal Appraise Blunder Cannot
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.

Again May Pass Temptation
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Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

Beneath Foot His Make
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Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

Delivered Keep Like Most
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I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.

Being Difficult Give Just
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The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

Confuse Defeat Dreams Life
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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.

Capable Gravitate Heart His
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I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled, and thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.

Felt Worked hard Entire life Deserved
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Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite of all temptations or menaces.

Virtue Heroic Bravery Thought
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Do today’s duty, fight today’s temptation; do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.

Do Today Duty Temptation
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Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centered and even solipsistic.

Cancer Victim hood Permanent temptation Self centered
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If you say yes to every temptation, you will lose your freedom.

Say yes Every temptation Will lose Your freedom
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We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

We Good Temptation Provocation
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How well we respond to injury determines how powerful we become.Our biggest temptation will always be unforgiveness.

We respond To injury Determines How powerful
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Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.

Temptations Sell Soul Money
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Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.

Love Desire Reason Temptation
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No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.

Man Trials Temptations Scriptures
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I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless

Society Temptation Religion Stupid
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If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation

Abide Prayer Temptation
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Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.

Temptation Opportunity God
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