Quotes by Temptation If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the fruit from the garden! In appearance it may glisten to the eye; but the perishable pleasure of possession quickly avenges the curse of curiosity. Friedrich Schiller gardeneyetemptation Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin. Fulton J. Sheen invitessintemptation Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad. Fulton J. Sheen inclinespeaktemptation If you are committed to the change, you're going to have to sideline the skeptics, or at least keep them under control. There may be a temptation to move them out but skeptics have a value - flagging weaknesses in the plan. Ideally, you will enlist their critical stance by challenging them to find ways to improve the plan as you go forward. Gary A. Klein temptationchallengesmoving I would urge my fellow conservatives to avoid the temptation to crow about it or take credit. Gary Bauer crowcredittemptation Scripture doesn't promise that God will remove temptation, only that you'll be given strength to withstand it. Garrison Keillor scripturetemptationpromise 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 passionreadingtemptation If you decide that you cannot beat a temptation, what you are really doing is giving yourself permission to be irresponsible. Gary Zukav beatstemptationgiving Temptation is a dress rehearsal for a karmic experience of negativity. Gary Zukav negativitytemptationdresses The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny. Gelett Burgess legsdenytemptation As your temptations become greater, so does your ability to make responsible choices. Gary Zukav choicestemptationdoe I'm highly aware that some impulses are harder to ignore than others. I'm aware that fear of consequences causes us to guard our secrets. But it's our actions when faced with temptation that define who we are. It's our courage in admitting what we've done wrong that makes us forgivable. Gena Showalter admittingtemptationsecret The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue. George A. Smith strongtemptationenthusiasm Afflictions, like bills and pikes, make a terrible show when they cannot reach us; but the temptations of prosperity, like unseen bullets, wound and kill us before they are discerned. George Downame unseenafflictiontemptation Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation. Friedrich Nietzsche takentemptationself The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders. Georg C. Lichtenberg dangeroussuccessfultemptation To those men and women in business, remember the ultimate end of your work: to make a better product, to create better lives. I ask you to plan for the longer term and avoid that temptation of quick and easy paper profits. George H. W. Bush businesstemptationmen I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. George Bernard Shaw humoroustemptationprofound Often the work of the Lord itself may be a temptation to keep us from that communion with Him which is so essential to the benefit of our own souls. George Muller essentialssoultemptation A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments. George Stillman Hillard temptationmindart«7891011121314151617»
