Temptation Quotes - Page 37

• If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.

  Marjorie Garber

  Eras, Should, Ifs

  Marjorie Garber (2008). “Shakespeare and Modern Culture”, p.108, Anchor

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• For some reason, we see long-term travel to faraway lands as a recurring dream or an exotic temptation, but not something that applies to the here and now. Instead — out of our insane duty to fear, fashion, and monthly payments on things we don't really need — we quarantine our travels to short, frenzied bursts.

  Rolf Potts

  Dream, Fashion, Land

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.9, Ballantine Books

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• The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Compassion, Moral, Fantasy

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• Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Patience, Religious, Islamic

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• How many of us would be able to overcome our desires and resist the temptation of sin? How many of us even lower our gaze when we look upon something that we are not supposed to? The real prisoner is the one whose heart has been kept away from remembering his Lord, and the real captive is the one who has been captivated by his whims and desires.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  God, Religious, Real

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• Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves

  Anne Baxter

  Home, Devil, Laziness

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• The event concept was sparked from a shared observation amongst these leading lifestyle brands that the economic rebound has spurred greater liquidity into real estate, the stock market is setting new heights and consumers are generally stepping out more for luxury goods and services. After many years of pulling back, it was fun to see guests flirting with temptation, whether that was a new home, a new car, a new look or just to learn more about the trends. Others were happy to take in all the action.

  Andrea Savage

  Fun, Real, Home

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• A trustworthy marriage has weathered temptation and anger and jealousy, resentment, self-righteousness and a little bit of selfishness. When you get over and get through that, then maybe you can see the light to love.

  Ruby Dee

  Light, Self, Littles

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• If you are going to be underestimated by people who speak more rapidly, the temptation is to speak slowly and strategically and outwit them.

  Doris Betts

  People, Speak, Ifs

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• Humans cannot reject temptation. When they are plunged into the depths of despair, likened to hell, they will hold on to anything that may help them escape from the situation they are in, even if it's merely a spider's thread, no matter what sort of humans they are.

  Yana Toboso

  Despair, May, Matter

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• Our digital experiences are out of body. This biases us toward depersonalised behaviour in an environment where one’s identity can be a liability. But the more anonymously we engage with others, the less we experience the human repercussions of what we say and do. By resisting the temptation to engage from the apparent safety of anonymity, we remain accountable and present - and are much more likely to bring our humanity with us into the digital realm

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Safety, Humanity, Identity

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• Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Inspirational, Fear, Real

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• Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Fear, Heart, Cutting

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• Parents and children seldom act in concert:
  each child endeavors to appropriate
  the esteem or fondness of the parents,
  and the parents, with yet less temptation,
  betray each other to their children.

  Samuel Johnson

  Children, Parent, Concerts

  Samuel Johnson (1809). “Rasselas: A Tale”, p.78

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• As we touch the temple and love the temple, our lives will reflect our faith. As we go to the holy house, as we remember the covenants we make therein, we will be able to bear every trial and overcome each temptation.

  Thomas S. Monson

  House, And Love, Overcoming

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• The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low.

  Thomas Brooks

  Fall, Way, Lows

  Thomas Brooks (1866). “The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed”, p.36

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• Suppose that by revenge you might destroy one enemy; yet, by exercising the Christian's temper you might conquer three‌–‌your own lust, Satan's temptation, and your enemy's heart.

  John Flavel

  Christian, Revenge, Heart

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• Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Reading, Passion, Desire

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• The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this temptation, from Spartacus to Danton and Dostoevsky; they are the classical form of betrayal of the cause. The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan. As long as chaos dominates the world, God is an anachronism; and every compromise with one’s own conscience is perfidy. When the accursed inner voice speaks to you, hold your hands over your ears….

  Arthur Koestler

  Betrayal, Hands, Voice

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• The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.

  Jane Byrne

  Government, People, Giving

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• The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.

  Seneca the Younger

  Greatness, Men, Fearless

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• Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.

  Karl Abraham

  Children, Opposites, Yield

  Karl Abraham (1968). “Selected Papers, with an Introductory Memoir by Ernest Jones”

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• When dealing with a difficult person, all that matters from a spiritual standpoint is how you react and treat the person. It's not about getting the other person to change or agree with you. Your spiritual growth is all about the way that YOU deal with the relationship, the person, and the situation. Even if the situation would justify you acting harshly, resist this temptation. Ask for heaven to purify and uplift your thoughts and feelings so that everything you do and say is aligned with Divine Love. This is the path and purpose of the lightworker. This is why you are here.

  Doreen Virtue

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Heaven

  FaceBook post by Doreen Virtue from Jan 31, 2017

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• Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of our self-confidence.

  Francois Fenelon

  Self Confidence, Rust, Files

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• Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that tools of the kind we now have are in principle sufficient to understand the universe as a whole.

  Thomas Nagel

  Humility, Intellectual, Principles

  Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False”, p.10, Oxford University Press

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