Temptation Quotes - Page 34

• Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

  Phillips Brooks

  Life, Real, Struggle

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• Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Writing, Style, Trying

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• The Lord sometimes allows people who are devoted to Him to fall into such dreadful vices; and this is in order to prevent them from falling into a still greater sin-pride. Your temptation will pass and you will spend the remaining days of your life in humility. Only do not forget your sin.

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Fall, Humility, Pride

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• Since God intends to make you like Jesus, he will take you through the same experiences Jesus went through. That includes loneliness, temptation, stress, criticism, rejection, and many other problems.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Loneliness, Stress

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.179, Zondervan

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• Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work, become easier and simpler where they are made not in the fear of men, but only in the sight of God. He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Morning, Prayer, Work

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• Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jobs, Prayer, Issues

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “The Shadow of an Agony”, p.88, Discovery House

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• Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Prayer, Virtue

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• Prayer is the way and means God has appointed for the communication of the blessings of His goodness to His people.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Prayer, Communication, Mean

  Arthur W. Pink (2008). “Sovereignty of God”, p.213, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Prayer is not intended to change God's purpose, nor is it to move Him to form fresh purposes. God has decreed that certain events shall come to pass through the means He has appointed for their accomplishment.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Prayer, Moving, Mean

  Arthur W. Pink (2007). “The Sovereignty of God”, p.106, Lulu.com

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• 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

  Prayer, Real, Heart

  Arthur W. Pink (2008). “Sovereignty of God”, p.216, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• The prevailing idea seems to be, that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and that I expect Him to give me that which I have asked. But this is a most dishonouring and degrading conception. The popular belief reduces God to a servant, our servant: doing our bidding, performing our pleasure, granting our desires. No, prayer is a coming to God, telling Him my need, committing my way unto the Lord, and leaving Him to deal with it as seemeth Him best.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Prayer, Ideas, Giving

  Arthur W. Pink (2007). “The Sovereignty of God”, p.107, Lulu.com

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• Just go into the room, sit in the centre of the room, open the doors and windows, and see who comes to visit.
  You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptations and stories, everything imaginable.
  Your only job is to stay in your seat.
  You will see it all arise and pass, and out of this, wisdom and understanding will come.

  Ajahn Chah

  Jobs, Doors, Visits You

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• Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation?

  Vicesimus Knox

  Ignorance, Justice, Diversity

  In Mary Wollstonecraft 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' (1792) ch. 7

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• We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century... During this period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries but necessities - not the salt in our bread but the bread itself.

  Jimmy Carter

  Patriotic, Commitment, Past

  Jimmy Carter's Farewell Address, www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov. January 14, 1981.

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• 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

  Death, Suicide, Children

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.336, Transaction Publishers

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• For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October.

  Hal Borland

  Autumn, Sea, Purple

  Hal Borland (1965). “Countryman: A Summary of Belief”

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• It often happens that we pray God to deliver us from some dangerous temptation, and yet that God does not hear us, but permits the temptation to continue troubling us. In such a case, let us understand that God permits even this for our greater good.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Prayer, Perfection, Soul

  "The Great Means of Salvation and of Perfection".

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• We build character in order for us to withstand the rigors of combat and resist the temptations to compromise our principles in peacetime. We must build character in peacetime because there is no time in war. Character is the most important quality you can find in any person, but especially in a soldier. It is the foundation that will get anybody through anything he may encounter. Reputation is what people think you are; character is what you are- that is the staying power.

  Glen E. Morrell

  War, Character, Army

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• Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation.

  Thomas Paine

  Class, Perfect, Distinction

  Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). “Paine: Political Writings”, p.26, Cambridge University Press

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• Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity.

  Cesar Chavez

  People, Poverty, Damage

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• Mixing with groups of people can be enjoyed, it is pleasing in a way that cannot be explained other than the temptation to become closer to one or the other.

  Raymond Burr

  Friendship, People, Mixing

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• 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

  Christian, Blessing, Grace

  George Whitefield (1771). “The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A...: Containing All His Sermons and Tracts which Have Been Already Published: with a Select Collection of Letters... Also, Some Other Pieces on Important Subjects, Never Before Printed; Prepared by Himself for the Press; to which is Prefixed, an Account of His Life, Compiled from His Orignial Papers and Letters”, p.82

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• Satan would seem to be mannerly and reasonable; making as if he would be content with one-half of the heart, whereas God challengeth all or none: as, indeed, He hath most reason to claim all that made all. But this is nothing but a crafty fetch of Satan; for he knows that if he have any part, God will have none: so the whole falleth to his share alone.

  Joseph Hall

  Prayer, Heart, Would Be

  Joseph Hall (1824). “Select Tracts from the Writings of the ... Rev. J. Hall”, p.226

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• Our great Pattern hath showed us what our deportment ought to be in all suggestions and temptations. When the devil showed Him "all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them," to tempt Him withal, He did not stand and look upon them, viewing their glory, and pondering their empire.... but instantly, without stay, He cries, "Get thee hence, Satan." Meet thy temptation in its entrance with thoughts of faith concerning Christ on the cross; this will make it sink before thee. Entertain no parley, no dispute with it, if thou wouldst not enter into it.

  John Owen

  Prayer, Christ On The Cross, Devil

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• Watch constantly against those things which are thought to be no temptations. The most poisonous serpents are found where the sweetest flowers grow. Cleopatra was poisoned by an asp that was brought to her in a basket of fair flowers. Sharp-edged tools, long handled, wound at last.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Flower, Long

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