Quotes by Temptation If experience teaches anything, it is that what the community undertakes to do is usually done badly. This is due in part to the temptation to corruption that such enterprises involve, but even more, perhaps, to the lack of personal interest on the part of those engaged in them. Suzanne La Follette societycommunitytemptation If I want to free myself from endless cycles of struggling with temptation, I need to keep rediscovering that the pain of the struggle is greater than the pain of the desire. If I develop the habit of restraining myself, I'll enjoy the relief of feeling the desires pass, and I'll remember that desires are not the problem. Feeling pushed around by them is. I'll continue to have desires, of course, because I'm alive, but they'll be more modest in their demands. Sylvia Boorstein paintemptationstruggle If God has called you, the more they block your way, the more that trouble and temptation, the more God's love is provoked. Each attempt to stop you asks for more evidence from God. T. B. Joshua blocktemptationlove-is When God has not taken away our trouble or temptation yet, with His grace in our lives, we are content. T. B. Joshua takengracetemptation The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. T. S. Eliot lastsdeedstemptation We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement. Tami Hoag qualityjudgementtemptation Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong. Terence appearancetemptation The more we see that any action springs not from the motive of obedience, the more evident is it that it is a temptation of the enemy; for when God sends an inspiration, the very first effect of it is to infuse a spirit of docility. Teresa of Avila inspirationtemptationspring His Majesty [the Lord] . . . rewards great services with trials, and there can be no better reward, for out of trials springs love for God. Teresa of Avila sainttemptationspring I resist the temptation to curate my apartment. Thelma Golden apartmenttemptation People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked. Terry Pratchett temptationopportunitypeople Great success is a great temptation. Theodore Parker great-successtemptation Do this and you will be an apostle, a fulfiller of what the Lord chose you for, an accomplisher of your calling as messenger. When at first you succeed in all this, then perhaps the Lord will appoint you as a special ambassador-to save others after you have saved yourself; and to help those who are tempted, after you yourself pass through all temptations, and through all experiences in good and evil. Theophan the Recluse humilitytemptationevil Temptations discover what you are. Thomas a Kempis temptation Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation. Thomas Adams halftemptationway Do not try to find a place free from temptations and troubles. Rather, seek a peace that endures even when you are beset by various temptations and tried by much adversity. Thomas a Kempis adversitytemptationtrying We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are. Thomas a Kempis who-we-aretemptationshows No one is so good that he is immune from temptation. We will never be entirely free from it. . . . There is no order so holy, no place so secret where there will be no temptation. Thomas a Kempis temptationsecretorder Little sins carry with them but little temptations to sin, and then a man shews most viciousness and unkindness, when he sins on a little temptation. It is devilish to sin without a temptation; it is little less than devilish to sin on a little occasion. The less the temptation is to sin, the greater is that sin. Thomas Brooks temptationlittlesmen When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger. Thomas Brooks safetytemptationmother«3031323334353637383940»
