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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."
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"You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd."
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"There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing."
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"Temptation is a strong weapon that Satan uses against the children of God."
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"Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself."
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"Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken."
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"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation."
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"That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it."
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"Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it."
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"Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains."
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"Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body."
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"As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon."
16
"The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little."
16
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."
16
"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."
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"We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are."
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"But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor."
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"Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse."
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"Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you."
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"We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives."
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"It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once."
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"Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker."
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"Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought."
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"Cheating is an innate evolutionarily programmed desire, especially in men, but it is not a desire that cannot be controlled."
12
"Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again."
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"The devil will do everything to get you disappointed in God."
11
"Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances."
11
"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."
11
"Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor."
10
"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
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"Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it."
10
"Wisdom makes it even more likely that you will be exposed to the danger of fornication."
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"Fornication is a snare that a person sets for himself."
10
"The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them."
10
"She got up and he saw the skin of her thigh for a moment above the artificial silk, and a prick of sexual desire disturbed him like a sickness. That was what happened to a man in the end: the stuffy room, the wakeful children, the Saturday night movements from the other bed. Was there no escape""anywhere""for anyone? It was worth murdering a world."
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"Fornication deprives a person of his spiritual covering."
9
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."
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"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it."
9
"I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them."
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"Selfishness is one of the most destructive forces in man that is why life demands for its death."
8
"Nicolai, the Dark Seducer as his people called him, had been in bed, but not alone. He was never alone. He was a man known for the violence of his temper as well as the deliciousness of his touch."
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"So spake the enemy of mankind, enclosedIn serpent, inmate bad! and toward EveAddressed his way: not with indented wave,Prone on the ground, as since; but on his rear,Circular base of rising folds, that toweredFold above fold, a surging maze! his headCrested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes;With burnished neck of verdant gold, erectAmidst his circling spires, that on the grassFloated redundant: pleasing was his shapeAnd lovely; never since of serpent-kindLovelier."
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"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."
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"One of the main roots of ungodliness is being a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God."
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