Quotes by Temptation What makes the temptation of power so seemingly irresistible? Maybe it is that power offers an easy substitute for the hard task of love. It seems easier to be God than to love God, easier to control people than to love people, easier to own life than to love life. Henri Nouwen love-life temptation people The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry. Henry A. Kissinger foreign-policy temptation believe Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation. H. L. Mencken freedom temptation funny Gaming is a vice the more dangerous as it is deceitful; and, contrary to every other species of luxury, flatters its votaries with the hopes of increasing their wealth; so that avarice itself is so far from securing us against its temptations that it often betrays the more thoughtless and giddy part of mankind into them. Henry Fielding luxury gambling temptation That's the temptation of the devil: "Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!" Henri Nouwen devil temptation stones As ministers our greatest temptation is toward too many words. They weaken our faith and make us lukewarm. But silence is a sacred discipline, a guard of the Holy Spirit. Henri Nouwen discipline silence temptation No place, no company, no age, no person is temptation-free; let no man boast that he was never tempted, let him not be high-minded, but fear, for he may be surprised in that very instant wherein he boasteth that he was never tempted at all. Herbert Spencer temptation age men Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself. Henry Ward Beecher temptation The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To his extreme annoyance, tempted him. Hilaire Belloc privacy temptation evil There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it. Honore de Balzac cures temptation Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche. Henry Ward Beecher temptation son thinking He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise. Horace Mann yield temptation men Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow safe temptation life He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Horace Mann temptation-life temptation men Women have traditionally been either put on pedestals or damned as the source of all sexual temptation and sin. These are two sides of the same coin, since both place women in a nonhuman role. Playboy has opposed these warped sexual values and, in so doing, helped women step down from their pedestals and enjoy their natural sexuality as much as men. Hugh Hefner women two-sides temptation Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared with those fantasies of taste, of those yearning of the imagination, of those insatiable appetites of intellect, which bewilder a student in a great bookseller's temptation-hall. Henry Ward Beecher imagination temptation animal Put temptation on the unenjoyment line. Henry Rollins lines politics temptation When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust. Honore de Balzac husband hatred temptation It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must resist this temptation. Hyman Rickover work-out successful temptation I didn't want to think about a project that I couldn't finish. That's a kind of temptation. One has to realize one's limitations. Why kid yourself? I. M. Pei temptation kids thinking «1011121314151617181920»
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