Quotes by Temptation Resist the temptation to ascribe motive, because you really don't know - and it gets in the way of being able to reach a consensus on things that matter to you and to many other people. Joe Biden temptationmatterpeople Who, under pressing temptations to lie, adheres to truth, nor to the profane betrays aught of a sacred trust, is near the summit of wisdom and virtue. Johann Kaspar Lavater sacredtemptationlying No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures. John Bunyan temptationchristianmen God has defeated Satan through the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Through this overwhelming victory, God has also empowered you to overcome any temptation to sin and has provided sufficient resources for you to respond biblically to any problem of life. By relying on God's power and being obedient to His Word, you can be an overcomer in any situation. John C. Broger victorytemptationjesus What the members of the Church need, more than anything else, are strong testimonies of Jesus Christ and the gospel He restored. They need to know. And they need to know that they know. This is the best protection against the tsunami of temptations and the waves of immorality that crash against us. Perhaps this is just another reason why the first principle of the gospel is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ! John Bytheway strongtemptationjesus Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them. John Bunyan temptationprayerovercoming Temptation provokes me to look upward to God. John Bunyan look-uptemptationlooks Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations. John Ciardi abilityhonestytemptation Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul. John Bunyan hurttemptationgrieving The two great words of antiquity are behold and beware. Behold the possibilities and beware the temptations. Jim Rohn possibilitytemptationtwo The besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry. John Herschel temptationageevil At GQ, there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want. John Jeremiah Sullivan temptationwantmight Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe temptationbirdmen There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist John Lubbock strongtemptationexercise And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage. John Locke temptationlawhands I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless. John Newton uselessstupidtemptation If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. John Owen ifstemptationprayer Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before. John Owen drawstemptationmen If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation. John Maynard Keynes businesstemptationmight I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science. John Polkinghorne temptationgivingthinking«1415161718192021222324»
