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• When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.

  Dale Carnegie

  Gratitude, Luck, Why Not

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• Every day God patiently bears with us, and every day we are tempted to become impatient with our friends, neighbors, and loved ones. And our faults and failures before God are so much more serious than the petty actions of others that tend to irritate us! God calls us to graciously bear with the weaknesses of others, tolerating them and forgiving them even as He has forgiven us.

  Jerry Bridges

  Forgiving, Serious, Weakness

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Practice of Godliness”, p.174, NavPress

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• God uses the opposite situation of each fruit to allow us a choice. You can't claim to be good if you have never been tempted to be bad.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Opposites, Choices

  "The Purpose-driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?". Book by Rick Warren, 2003.

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• We are sometimes tempted to believe the lie that God does not love us. Thankfully the Bible is filled with evidence that this is not true.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God.

  Bob Jones, Sr.

  Bible, God, Christian

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• Today one might be tempted to say that patriotism is the last refuge of the tribal religion dedicated to the worship of German, French, English and Russian Gods of Battles. Surely such a religion has nothing in common with the religion which counsels for the disciple non-resistance, unstinted forgiveness, and the elimination of all rancor?

  Joseph Alexander Leighton

  Battle, Lasts, Resistance

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• Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you livein our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.

  Elisabeth Eaves

  Country, Imagination, Lovers

  Elisabeth Eaves (2011). “Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents”, p.8, Seal Press

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• You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Strong, Attachment

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that I feel no spiritual void. I have my philosophy of life, which does not include any aspect of the supernatural and which I find totally satisfying. I am, in short, a rationalist and believe only that which reason tells me is so.

  Isaac Asimov

  Spiritual, Atheist, Philosophy

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.32, Bantam

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• This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Trials, Forget

  Martin Luther (2015). “A Treatise on Good Works”, p.35, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• It's indeed surprising that replacing the elementary particle with a string leads to such a big change in things. I'm tempted to say that it has to do with the fuzziness it introduces.

  Edward Witten

  Change, Introducing, Bigs

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• A spurious democracy has influenced both our research methods (I am sometimes tempted to define "validity" as part of the context of an experiment demanding so little in the way of esoteric gift that any number can play at it, provided they have taken a certain number of courses) and our research subjects (it would be deemed snobbish to investigate only the best people).

  David Riesman

  Taken, Play, Numbers

  David Riesman (1955). “Selected essays from Individualism reconsidered”

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• God indeed tempteth no man; but yet we ask, in this petition, that he would keep and preserve us, lest the devil, the world, and our own flesh delude and draw us away from the true faith, and throw us into superstition, distrust, despair, and other grievous sins and wickedness; and that, if we should be tempted therewith even to the highest degree, we still may conquer, and at last triumph over them.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Despair, Devil

  Martin Luther (2017). “Martin Luther's Table Talk”, p.72, Gideon House Books

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• You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children , you must not do it anymore. A scheme is not a vision and you never have been tempted by a demon or a god .

  Leonard Cohen

  Children, Sacrifice, Vision

  Song: Story Of Isaac, Album: Live Songs, 1969

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• The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if there is evidence both ways, is a power of enormous consequence. An unscrupulous administrator might be tempted to say "Let me find the facts for the people of my country, and I care little who lays down the general principles."

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Country, People, Facts

  "Important Work of Uncle Sam's Lawyers". American Bar Association Journal, p. 238, April 1931.

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• Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn't motivating, what would be? If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the planet (global warming) isn't enough, what is? And if you are tempted to put off these questions of conscience, to say not now, then when?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Numbers, Suffering

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• When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be.

  George Washington

  May, Fruit, Seduction

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1784). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.128

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• I've learned to distinguish between the greatness of God and the inexcusable evil that has been done by those professing his name. And so I do not deduce [as Christopher Hitchens does] that God is not great, and that religion poisons everything. After all, if I failed to distinguish between the genius of Einstein and the abuse of his science to create weapons of mass destruction, I might be tempted to say science is not great, and technology poisons everything.

  John Lennox

  Technology, Greatness, Mass Destruction

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• The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

  Rebecca West

  Vices, Tendencies

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Thinking Reed”, p.193, Open Road Media

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• What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  People, Revolution, Concern

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• Again, in our enterprises we present the singular spectacle of daring and deliberation, each carried to its highest point, and both united in the same persons; although usually decision is the fruit of ignorance, hesitation of reflection. But the palm of courage will surely be adjudged most justly to those, who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger. In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours.

  Thucydides

  Ignorance, Reflection, Differences

  Thucydides, Ruth Finnegan “History of Greece”, Lulu.com

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• I don't believe anyone really likes paint, unless he's tempted to eat it.

  Harold Town

  Believe, Likes, Paint

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• Have you ever been tempted to start your own business? First read this cautionary tale, especially if you think your ideas come from God.

  Phil Vischer

  Thinking, Ideas, Firsts

  "Me, Myself, and Bob: A True Story About God, Dreams, and Talking Vegetables". Publisher's Weekly review of Phil Vischer's book, www.publishersweekly.com. October 09, 2006.

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• Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from

  Rolf Potts

  Running, Might, Problem

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.20, Ballantine Books

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• The separation of church and state can sometimes be frustrating for women and men of deep religious faith. They may be tempted to misuse government in order to impose a value which they cannot persuade others to accept. But once we succumb to that temptation, we step onto a slippery slope where everyone's freedom is at risk.

  Edward Kennedy

  Religious, Men, Order

  "Kennedy Tells Falwell Group Of Tolerance" by Phil Gailey, www.nytimes.com. October 4, 1983.

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