Quotes by Temptation None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad. Benjamin Whichcote be-goodtemptationopportunity The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation. Bernard Gilpin virtuetemptationstruggle Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations. Bernard of Clairvaux virtuetemptationprayer Terrible is the temptation to be good. Bertolt Brecht be-goodterribletemptation Temptation to behave is terrible. Bertolt Brecht terribleliteraturetemptation I often long to . . . give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation. Bertrand Russell giving-uptemptationlong It’s the great temptation for small groups of people to slide into a state where they’re not quite telling each other the truth and they’re not quite celebrating each other. Instead, they tolerate each other, they accommodate each other, and they settle for sitting on the unspoken matters that separate them. Bill Hybels groupstemptationpeople Sometimes the devil tempts me to believe in God. Bill Vaughan atheismtemptationbelieve It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts. Billy Graham decisions-you-makedecisiontemptation There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan's first temptation of Adam and Eve: "Ye shall be as gods." (Gen. 3:5) Billy Graham satantemptationfirsts Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in. Billy Sunday deviltemptationdoors St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities are the Serpent; the excitable desire is the Eve; and reason is the Adam. Our nature tempts us perpetually; criminal desire is often excited; but sin is not completed till reason consents. Blaise Pascal temptationdesiremen I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame And every time I pass that way I always hear my name Bob Dylan flamestemptationnames Don't tempt me, I can resist anything but temptation. Bob Hope i-cantemptation It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it. Bob Newhart comediandecisiontemptation There’s an old Chinese saying that I just love, and I believe it is so true. It goes like this: ‘The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.’ Bob Parsons chinesetemptationbelieve The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed. Bob Parsons chinesesucceedtemptation I always loved Little Anthony and the Imperials. They were like the precursors of the Temptations. I loved their music. Bobby Keys precursortemptationlittles Money, big money (which is actually a relative concept) is always, under any circumstances, a seduction, a test of morals, a temptation to sin. Boris Yeltsin testsmoneytemptation There is a temptation for the writer or the teacher of Church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy or faith promoting or not. Some things that are true are not very useful. Boyd K. Packer scarytemptationteacher«1234567891011»
