TEMPTATION QUOTES III

quotations about temptation

Temptation quote

There can be no virtue without temptation; for virtue is victory over temptation.

LYMAN ABBOTT

The Theology of an Evolutionist

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Oh the remembrance of my great sins, of my great temptations, and of my great fear of perishing forever! They bring afresh into my mind the remembrance of my great help, my great supports from Heaven, and the great grace that God extended to such a wretch as I.

JOHN BUNYAN

preface, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

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Our nature tempts us perpetually; criminal desire is often excited; but sin is not completed till reason consents.

PASCAL

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Every yielding to temptation is a hindrance, not a help, to moral development; but every temptation offers what, rightly employed, is an indispensable means of moral development. For all moral development is through temptation to virtue.

LYMAN ABBOTT

The Theology of an Evolutionist

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Satan tempts the ambitious man with a crown, the sanguine man with beauty, the covetous man with a wedge of gold; he provides savory meat, such as the sinner loves.

T. WATSON

attributed, Day's Collacon


The mother who tries to keep her child away from all temptation simply prepares the boy for a terrible fall when he gets old enough to leave the home. It is not by taking away the bonds, it is by giving strength to the man that he may break the bonds, that he is redeemed. Every man is like a Samson bound by his enemies, and he must acquire the strength within himself to break them.

LYMAN ABBOTT

The Theology of an Evolutionist

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The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is like the letting out of waters--where a drop can go, a river can go. Whoever yields to temptation, subjects himself to the law of falling bodies.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts


A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.

C. S. LEWIS

Mere Christianity

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But Satan now is wiser than of yore,
And tempts by making rich, not making poor.

ALEXANDER POPE

Moral Essays

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Temptation would be a lot easier to avoid if we didn't meet it in such gay company.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


The temptations are endless, and willpower can only take us so far.

OLAYINKA

"The Real Reasons You Should Stop Procrastinating", Information Nigeria, May 30, 2017


If you want to prevent short-term temptations from derailing important long-term goals, you can change the way you think about those temptations. Focusing on the specifics of those temptations--particularly their desirable characteristics--makes it harder to resist those temptations. Thinking about the temptations abstractly, though, makes them less likely to engage your motivation to act. And that helps you to continue to do things that will help you to achieve those long-term goals.

ART MARKMAN

"Note to Self: It Is Easiest to Avoid Abstract Temptations", Psychology Today, April 14, 2017


We think if we can only take the temptation away from men, men will be virtuous. We are mistaken. Men are made virtuous by confronting temptation.

LYMAN ABBOTT

The Theology of an Evolutionist

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'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude


Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the temptation.

DOUGLAS JERROLD

The Catspaw


Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Maxims for Revolutionists

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Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted,
I sometimes wonder if we shall not find
That not by deeds, but by what we've resisted,
Our places are assigned.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

"As By Fire"

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Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.

JAMES JOYCE

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.

HONORE DE BALZAC

Père Goriot

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Temptations should end in victory.

J. NEWTON

attributed, Day's Collacon