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• To pray against temptation, and yet rush into occasions, is to thrust your fingers into the fire, and then pray they might not be burnt.

  Thomas Secker

  Fire, Might, Praying

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• I have switched on this modern laptop machine. And I have told myself that I must resist the temptation to start playing solitaire upon it.

  Margaret Drabble

  Machines, Laptops, Modern

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• The man who is free from credulity, but knows the uncreated, who has cut all ties, removed all temptations, renounced all desires, he is the greatest of men.

  Max Muller

  Cutting, Men, Ties

  Max Muller (2013). “Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha”, p.136, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Gently resist the temptation to chase your dreams into the world; pursue them in your heart until they disappear into the Self, and leave them there.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Dream, Heart, Self

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• A world filled with temptations needs priests who are totally dedicated to their mission. Accordingly, they are asked in a very special way to open themselves fully to serving others as Christ did by embracing the gift of celibacy.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Special, Needs, World

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• What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.

  Steve Lacy

  Survival, Strategy, Discouraged

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• Obviously, there's the temptation to sit back and smile, .. But there's so much at stake, we have to do our due diligence.

  Ralph Neas

  Due Diligence, Stakes, Dues

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• Mortifying the deeds of the body cannot be understood of the religious deeds of the body, for they are to be cherished, nor of the natural deeds of the body such as eating and drinking; but it refers to the sinful actions that are done by the body arising from the temptations and injections of Satan or the corrupt dictates of our own sinful heart.

  Christopher Love

  Religious, Drinking, Heart

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• There is a great temptation with songs, melodies and lyrics to overcomplicate them but in fact, you find that the most enduring melodies are often the simplest.

  Ken Hensley

  Song, Facts, Endure

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• 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

  Running, Animal, Discipline

  "Why willpower matters – and how to get it" by Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2012.

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• The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Peace, Self Control

  Norman Vincent Peale (2016). “Reaching Your Potential”, p.76, Jaico Publishing House

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• Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution?

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Imagination, Execution, Valiant

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• If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives.

  Will Rogers

  America, Evil, Lobbyists

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.63, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I hope you're very careful working, eating and drinking when the heat is so great--there are temptations there which at home you are free from--beware the juicy fruits, and the cooling ades, and cordials, and do not eat ice-cream, it is so very dangerous.

  Emily Dickinson

  Drinking, Home, Ice Cream

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.118, Harvard University Press

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• One great remedy against all manner of temptation, great or small, is to open the heart and lay bare its suggestion, likings, and dislikings before some spiritual adviser; for, . . . the first condition which the Evil One makes with a soul, when he wants to entrap it, is silence.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Spiritual, Heart, Evil

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• 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

  Prayer, Meditation, Decision

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• When you get up in the morning, before you suffer yourselves to eat one mouthful of food, call your wife and children together, bow down before the Lord, ask him to forgive your sins, and protect you through the day, to preserve you from temptation and all evil, to guide your steps aright.

  Brigham Young

  Morning, Prayer, Children

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• Mature people must find their own ways to cope with their own temptations.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, People, Way

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• If you decide that you cannot beat a temptation, what you are really doing is giving yourself permission to be irresponsible.

  Gary Zukav

  Giving, Beats, Permission

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from May 22, 2013

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• It is also possible to say precisely why. Truth seduces us very easily into a kind of joy of possession: I have comprehended this and that, learned it, understood it. Knowledge is power. I am therefore more than the other man who does not know this and that. I have greater possibilities and also greater temptations. Anyone who deals with truth - as we theologians certainly do - succumbs all too easily to the psychology of the possessor. But love is the opposite of the will to possess. It is self-giving. It boasteth not itself, but humbleth itself.

  Helmut Thielicke

  Love Is, Men, Opposites

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• There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Prayer, Singing, Devil

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.123

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• Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Work, Blessed, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings”, p.351

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• There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be driven out of the heart like the moneychangers from the temple. Maybe they can, if you patrol your weak points day and night, don't look, don't smell, don't dream.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Dream, Heart, Thinking

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.78, Random House

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• I hate the whole übermensch, superman temptation that pervades science fiction. I believe no protagonist should be so competent, so awe-inspiring, that a committee of 20 really hard-working, intelligent people couldn't do the same thing.

  David Brin

  Hate, Believe, Hard Work

  "David Brin: Dialog With the Future". Locus Magazine Interview, www.locusmag.com. March 1997.

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• Writing an upbeat aphorism is a temptation, but decorum forbids.

  Mason Cooley

  Writing, Aphorism, Upbeat

  "City Aphorisms: Eighth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1991.

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