Temptation Quotes - Page 25

• Without (my wife) Laurie, I would never be here right now, I know that. I would either be in a coffin, or stashed away doing a life sentence some place. Or running and hiding some place, if I was still alive. I'm certain I wouldn't be playing music. She's just been perfect for me. And she's a protector also; she protects me from myself, from temptations, and bad associations. She's constantly shielding me from walking the red hot coals of existing as a game.

  Art Pepper

  Running, Women, Bad Ass

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• The greek word for temptation means to test, to try, to prove.

  Selwyn Hughes

  Mean, Greek, Trying

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• 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

  Secret, Bears, Use

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• Two temptations that impair the value of their work inevitably beset public men who write memoirs. One is a tendency to reconstruct the past to suit the present views and feelings of the writer; the other is a natual desire to set his own part in affairs in a pleasing light.

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

  Book, Writing, Past

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• Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sight, Giving, Perspective

  Robert A. Heinlein (1983). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, Berkley

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• The best way to show your gratitude to God and people is to accept everything with joy....We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs from a heart that is in love with God. All over the world people are hungry and thirsty for God's love. We meet that hunger by spreading joy. Joy is one of the best safeguards against temptation.

  Mother Teresa

  Gratitude, Spring, Heart

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• I try to keep in shape and I always have to check myself. Whenever I binge eat, sweets are the one temptation.

  Morris Chestnut

  Sweet, Trying, Shapes

  "'The Best Man Holiday' Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• As a matter of fact, although we had some terrible challenges and temptations when I was in office, we never dropped a bomb... we never launched a missile... and we never fired a bullet. I think that one of the main requirements for a strong military, like a strong submarine force, is to prevent war, not to cause war.

  Jimmy Carter

  Strong, Military, War

  "President Jimmy Carter ‘NIV Lessons from Life Bible’ Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. May 22, 2012.

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• Mere mental assimilation of these truths cannot withstand temptation, however. The revelation of God is positively essential. The Spirit of God must reveal how we are in Christ and how we are united with Him in one.

  Watchman Nee

  Essentials, Spirit, Christ

  Watchman Nee (1993). “The Finest of the Wheat, vol 2 - Hardcover: Selected Excerpts from the Published Works of Watchman Nee”, p.54, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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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.

  Nick Vujicic

  Believe, Earth, Like You

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• Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor. The baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity at some point be sated; and since he dimly knows he is doing wrong he may possibly repent. But the inquisitor who mistakes his own cruelty and lust of power and fear for the voice of Heaven will torment us infinitely because he torments us with the approval of his own conscience and his better impulses appear to him as temptations.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mistake, Sleep, Tyrants

  "A Reply to Professor Haldane (1946)". "Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1966.

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• 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

  Country, Fun, Rocks

  "Scotty McCreery: 'You won't see any twerking from me'" by Sasha Savitsky, www.foxnews.com. January 22, 2014.

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• Perhaps there has never been a time when we had greater need to pray and to teach our family members to pray. Prayer is a defense against temptation. It is through earnest and heartfelt prayer that we can receive the needed blessings and the support required to make our way in this sometimes difficult and challenging journey we call mortality.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Prayer, Blessing, Journey

  "Three Goals to Guide You". Thomas S. Monson’s address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 2007.

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• We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.

  Napoleon Hill

  Imitation, Creatures, Hard

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.325, Penguin

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• Your road is everything that a road ought to be...and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the reason that little, seductive, mysterious roads are always branching out from it on either hand, and as these curve sharply also and hide what is beyond, you cannot resist the temptation to desert your own chosen path and explore them.

  Mark Twain

  Curves, Hands, Seductive

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• Have you been tormented with fears and doubts? Bombarded with temptation to sin? Try praising the Lord, and watch Satan flee.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Doubt, Trying, Watches

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• The soul is bound to the body by a chain of desires, temptations, troubles and worries, and it is trying to free itself. If you keep tugging at that chain which is holding you to mortal consciousness, some day an invisible Divine Hand will intervene and snap it apart and you will be free.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Hands, Worry, Soul

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1963). “Self-realization Magazine”

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• But precisely this illusion that everything is "clear" is what is blinding us all. It is a serious temptation, and it is a subtle form of pride and worldly love of power and revenge.

  Thomas Merton

  Revenge, Pride, Serious

  Thomas Merton (1995). “Witness to Freedom: The Letters of Thomas Merton in Times of Crisis”, p.183, Macmillan

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• I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation.

  Edna O'Brien

  Chastity

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• ...the temptation, which consisted of a single word written on the cemetary of the defeated: Sleep.

  Arthur Koestler

  Sleep, Defeated, Single Word

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• 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

  Fall, Two Sides, Trying

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• The weak and the defenseless in this world invite aggression from others. The best way we can serve peace is by removing the temptation from the path of those who think we are weak and, for that reason, they can bully or attack us. That temptation can only be removed if we make ourselves so strong that nobody dare entertain any aggressive designs against us. Pakistan has come to stay and no power on earth can destroy it

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Strong, Thinking, Design

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• I think that the Vietnam War era is important because we tend not to want to revisit it. For black people, there was the temptation of disaffection. People looked for alternative ways to express themselves personally and politically, people doubted the system, and there was the terrible kind of division in black America between a radical leadership and a much older, compromising leadership.

  Darryl Pinckney

  War, Thinking, America

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Integrity is hard work. I do think the Internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it's easier just to perform.

  Zephyr Teachout

  Integrity, Hard Work, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Certainly anyone who comes to faith in Christ has a new heart and they have an opportunity for new life and that's a wonderful thing. But it doesn't say anywhere in that passage that the people didn't still struggle with temptation or that they never fell prey to that sin again whether it was the issue of homosexuality or any of the other things that are listed there.

  Alan Chambers

  Struggle, Heart, Opportunity

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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