Quotes by Temptation It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. Walter Bagehot vicestemptationreligion It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken Walter Dean Myers hard-lifetemptationsometimes There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation. Walter Lippmann pridetemptationarguing Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity, to revert under stress and strain, under neglect or temptation, to our first natures. Walter Lippmann stresstemptationmen Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell. Warren Buffett buffetsinvestingtemptation You’d get very rich if you thought of yourself as having a card with only twenty punches in a lifetime, and every financial decision used up one punch. You’d resist the temptation to dabble. You’d make more good decisions and you’d make more big decisions. Warren Buffett twentiesdecisiontemptation Mere mental assimilation of these truths cannot withstand temptation, however. The revelation of God is positively essential. The Spirit of God must reveal how we are in Christ and how we are united with Him in one. Watchman Nee essentialsspirittemptation Resist the temptation to compare yourself to others. This is crucial in order to be able to manifest whatever you want. Wayne Dyer temptationwantorder Beware of the temptation to see yourself as unfairly treated. Wayne Dyer treatedtemptation What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night! Wilkie Collins gownstemptationnight Soul's Castle fell at one blast of temptation, But many a worm had pierced the foundation. William Allingham foundationsoultemptation God tested Abraham. Temptation is not meant to make us fail; it is meant to confront us with a situation out of which we emerge stronger than we were. Temptation is not the penalty of manhood; it is the glory of manhood. William Barclay strongerfailingtemptation If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives. Will Rogers temptationevilamerica Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare. William Blake baittemptationstruggle Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. William Butler Yeats adversitysoultemptation Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society. William Falconer vicestemptationway A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation. William Ellery Channing temptationmaymen It is the saint's duty, and should be their care, not only to believe that God is Almighty, but also to strongly believe that His almighty power is engaged for our defense and help in all of our straits and temptations. William Gurnall sainttemptationbelieve Say not that thou hast royal blood in thy veins; say not that thou art born of God if thou canst not prove thy pedigree by daring to be holy! William Gurnall temptationbloodart If death itself were to die, would it have a ghost, and would the ghost of death visit the dead in the guise of someone alive, if only to fright them from any temptation to return? William H. Gass returnalivetemptation«3132333435363738394041»
