Quotes about Temptation

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Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't. — Steve Maraboli
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. — Mae West
What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them? — P.G. Wodehouse, Carry on, Jeeves
God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is doin — Criss Jami, Healology
If you give in to temptation, you may have a moment of enjoyment, but then you'll have a lifetime of regrets. — Anthony T. Hincks
Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self — Henri J.M. Nouwen
Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccess — Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice
God tests, but he does not tempt. — Criss Jami, Killosophy
Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have restored me to happiness — Matthew Lewis, The Monk
It is a horrible thing that those who oppose Christ oppose themselves and in their opposition to Christ they are bound b — C R Lord
God will never tempt you. It's not in His nature. In fact, He promises to provide an escape route for every tempting sit — Mark Batterson, All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life
Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead fa — W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you. — Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
The Christian does not avoid sin to achieve salvation, but rather salvation brings him to a desire not to sin. The close — Criss Jami, Killosophy
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin o — Walter Lippmann
The promise of power wasn't enough, he thought. So now she tempts me with knowledge. — Anthony Ryan, Blood Song
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces. — Will Rogers
Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life — indonesia123
You taste like the last drop of whiskeyat 3 amafter a lousy daylike the first gulp of coffee on a Monday sipped behind a — Malak El Halabi