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Temptation Quotes
"No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object."
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"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow."
11
"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation."
8
"Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself."
8
"The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little."
5
"There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing."
5
"Temptation is a strong weapon that Satan uses against the children of God."
5
"Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy's ground...All the same, it is His invention, not ours...All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy has produced, at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He has forbidden...An ever increasing craving for an ever diminishing pleasure is the formula."
3
"Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken."
3
"Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body."
3
"Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it."
2
"But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor."
2
"As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon."
1
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."
1
"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it."
1
"One of the main roots of ungodliness is being a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God."
1
"You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd."
1
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."
1
"Cheating is an innate evolutionarily programmed desire, especially in men, but it is not a desire that cannot be controlled."
1
"Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again."
1
"Fornication is a snare that a person sets for himself."
1
"Selfishness is one of the most destructive forces in man that is why life demands for its death."
1
"Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker."
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"Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor."
"That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it."
"She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the consternation of her family - What kind of idiot was Eve, to believe a snake? But now she understood, for she had heard the voice of the snake and had watched as a wise and powerful man had fallen under its spell.Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It's not evil, it's noble and good. You'll be praised for it.And it's delicious."
"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
"The temptation to spend money increases as a person's opportunities increase."
"Fornication deprives a person of his spiritual covering."
"The devil will do everything to get you disappointed in God."
"When you come to God, the devil will remind you about the pleasures of sin."
"Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought."
"Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it."
"Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances."
"Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you."
"Be confidently assured that any 'gods' that we build will always have veracious appetites, and sooner or later they will gorge themselves on that which built them."
"Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing."
"Pleasure, in itself harmless, may become mischievous, by endearing to us a state which we know to be transient and probatory, and withdrawing our thoughts from that of which every hour brings us nearer to the beginning, and of which no length of time will bring us to the end. Mortification is not virtuous in itself, nor has any other use, but that it disengages us from the allurements of sense. In the state of future perfection, to which we all aspire, there will be pleasure without danger, and security without restraint."
"Every sexual sin begins with flattery."
"Wisdom makes it even more likely that you will be exposed to the danger of fornication."
"Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains."
"We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are."
"Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse."
"The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them."
"As soon as a person gives place to the devil in his life, the devil has this person hooked."
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