For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of.
Temptation Quotes (274 Quotes)
It's three times as tough on these kids as it was when I was their age, which wasn't that long ago. So many temptations, so many different people pulling on them out there. I'll tell them to try to lean on the people that can help you, the Boys Girls Club counselor, your guidance counselor at school, a teacher, a parent.
Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless.
I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.
Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic. It is not idly, passively waiting and hoping for some good thing to happen. It gives us hope by helping us realize that the righteous suffer no failure except in giving up and no longer trying. We must never give up, regardless of temptations, frustrations, disappointments, or discouragements.
Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
The temptation was an absolute truth and the serpent was the tempter. For his insolence the snake was punished and condemned to crawl on its belly forever.
A being without an aim in life, or not possessing the requisite concentration of purpose to assist him in resisting temptation, is like a cork floating upon the water, driven hither and thither by every wind that blows.
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
The temptation was there after their fifth goal. But I decided against my intuition. He's got to learn to battle through it.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
The biggest threat to our recovery is for the Congress to overspend, ... We have the funds to meet our obligations, so long as they resist the temptation to spend.
By taking away the elite players from the Premiership clubs and leasing them back on an irregular basis, the solid foundation that we have created in the professional era would be weakened. The temptation would be for more clubs to go down the Northampton road and sign more players from overseas, something which would work to the detriment of the national side.
On Saturday, he wanted to go back into the game, because that's just how he is. But we had to be smart about it. The (injury) tightened up on him as the game went on. We asked him as we went into the second half if it was tightening up, and it was. Had it not been, there might have been a temptation to put him back into the game. As it is now, it's good we didn't, because we could have lost him for an extended period of time.
I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.
Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.
We'll wait. Isaac and Robert, it's the same situation as Marshall Faulk and Adam Archuleta. If they're not ready to go, they're not going to go. If they're close, well, then they're not going to go. We'll move on. The temptation -- we just have to resist it.
Parents and children seldom act in concert each child endeavours to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children.
A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
As the Master Wills Slowly, through all the universe, the temple of God is being built. Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of Gods likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone. When, in your hard fight, in your tiresome drudgery, or in your terrible temptation, you catch the purpose of your being, and give yourself to God, and so give Him the chance to give Himself to you, your life, a living stone, is taken up and set into that growing wall. Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely waysthere God is hewing out the pillars for His temple. Oh, if the stone can only have some vision of the temple of which it is to be a part forever, what patience must fill it as it feels the blows of the hammer, and knows that success for it is simply to let itself be wrought into what shape the Master wills.
I think we're recommending to the Federal Emergency Management Agency no more than 300 people coming to Pittsburgh this week, and a greater amount in Philadelphia, ... The key is to get it right. The temptation is to say, 'Send us everyone you need,' but we don't want their experience in Pennsylvania to be an unsatisfactory one. We're taking these people with the idea that they might be with us for four or five or six months.
By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
BRETHREN, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.
The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.
When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one's heart, it's pleasures, and it's pains, to a dear friend. Tell him your troubles, that he may comfort you tell him your joys, that he may sober them tell him your longings, that he may purify them tell him your dislikes, that he may help you coquer them talk to him of your temptations, that he may shield you from them show him the wounds of your heart, that he may heal them lay bare your indifference to good, your depraved tastes for evil, your instability. Tell him how self-love makes you unjust to others, how vanity tempts you to be insincere, how pride disguises you to yourself and others. If you thus pour out your weaknesses, needs, troubles, there will be no lack of what to say. You will never exhaust the subject. It is continually being renewed. People who have no secrets from each other never want for subject of conversation. They do not weigh their words, for there is nothing to be held back, neither do they seek for something to say. They talk out of the abundance of their heart, without consideration they say just what they think. Blessed are they who attain to such familiar, unreserved intercourse with God.
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
Man's desires and pitfalls are placed there so that I may do My work. When you give up totally, then the temptations will fade. I will never give up on you. Every slip will become harder and harder to bear and less easy to remedy.
I can resist everything except temptation.
When discussing the rise and fall of empires, it is well to mark closely their rate of growth, avoiding the temptation to telescope time and discover too early signs of greatness in a state which we know will one day be great, or to predict too early the collapse of an empire which we know will one day cease to be. The life-span of empires cannot be plotted by events, only by careful diagnosis and ausculation--and as in medicine there is always room for error.
When I am violently beset with temptations, or cannot rid myself of evil thoughts, I resolve to do some Arithmetic, or Geometry, or some other study, which necessarily engages all my thoughts, and unavoidably keeps them from wandering.
Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.
If you find your mind tempted and entangled in greed, you must suppress the greed and control the temptation Be the master of your own mind.
Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.
A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.
Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.
We were very tempted. A lot of the guys we had up there gone before we were able to pick them. When you get into that third and fourth round, there were some really good players who fly off that board.
There's no reason that we should give up that lever on people's behavior - namely, the inhibition systems of the brain - just because we're coming to understand more about the temptation systems.
Avoid as much as possible the temptation to go out and call the long shots. In general, the favorites tend to win. But everybody wants to be able to say they saw the Marcia Gay Harden upset.
Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.
There was a temptation with regard to Real Madrid, but when a club like Milan propose a contract extension you cannot refuse.
In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
Sadly, there is a small group of parents who do not respect education and they come not just from deprived circumstances but from among the better-off as well. This attitude seriously damages children's future prospects and leaves them vulnerable to the temptations and dangers of the streets.
I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To his extreme annoyance, tempted him.