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If you decide that you cannot beat a temptation, what you are really doing is giving yourself permission to be irresponsible.
Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.
Great success is a great temptation.
Temptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious
Temptation is necessary to make us realize that we are nothing in ourselves.
All temptation finds its power when hidden from others.
The temptation is not here, where you are reading about it or praying about it. It is down in your shop, among bales and boxes, ten-penny nails, and sand-paper.
What's the good of resisting temptation? There'll always be more.
One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.
Temptation: the fiend at my elbow.
Every temptation is an examination; it is either you pass or fail
If you are facing some kind of temptation, remember that it is within your power to get the victory over it.
Temptation always starts in your mind, not in circumstances.
The path of temptation is gradual and intelligent, not as sudden and random as it seems.
Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray.
Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
The temptation battle is the most important battle you will ever fight.
Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
When we succumb to temptation, we are failing to believe in that moment that everything we need, in Christ we already have.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it ... I can resist everything but temptation.
There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear.
Temptation is a push or a pull intended to take us away off the will of God
What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.
Words are the great temptation.
I deal with temptation by yielding to it.
Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of our self-confidence.
The only way to rid yourself of temptation, is to yield to it.
Temptation is not a sin; it is a call to battle.
The best way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
Temptations are as thick as the leaves of the forest, and no one can be out of the reach of temptation unless he is dead. The great thing is to make people intelligent enough and strong enough, not to keep away from temptation, but to resist it.
I can resist anything but temptation.
Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and their ways nor pity and prayer for their deliverance.
Opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on your front door forever.
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
Anything is a temptation to those who dread it.
Temptation may knock on your door, but it will never congratulate you if you open it.
Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.
Temptation does not make the sin, it lies ready in the heart.
Urges. Mercy, the urges.
Choices are exhibited through the notions of free will,temptation challenges them.
Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.
Every enticing item you pass in the window and don't buy is a crushed impulse, slowly whittling away at your reserve of willpower - making it much more likely that later in the day you will fall for temptation.
Temptation yielded to is lust deified (My Utmost for His Highest, September 17 entry). Temptation comes in many forms, but it is always personal, uncannily tailor-made for our individual moral weakness, and it takes aim at God's character, seeking to ransack our faith.
The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.
Many of us suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer.
Temptation is not a sin. It is the yielding that is sin. All temptation is from the devil.
Temptations don't appear nearly as harmful as the roads they lead you down.
Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin.
'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
I can resist everything except temptation.
Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them
Put temptation on the unenjoyment line.
It is not enough to simply remove temptation. We must beat it away, burn it, suppress it, combat it with as much ruthless intent as we can muster.
You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
Temptation is God's magnifying glass; it shows us how much work He has left to do in our lives.
While you and I have to expect temptation, we sure don't have to feed it.
It's always easier to avoid temptation than to resist it.
I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
As your temptations become greater, so does your ability to make responsible choices.
There are some temptations that cannot be resisted, some lessons we never learn.
Sin was a powerful temptation, indeed
I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.
Capacity for joy Admits temptation.
There is no memory less satisfying than a temptation that we resisted.
I am too impatient to wait for temptation to come to me.
We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.
There's one thing you'll never be delivered from. It's a ten-letter word called temptation!
The only way to banish temptation is to give in to it, the saying went.
Temptation is natural. That doesn't mean you should act on it." He
Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle
The sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.
If the soul would know the merit which one acquires in temptations suffered in patience and conquered, it would be tempted to say: "Lord, send me temptations."
If you play with temptation do not expect God will deliver you
'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
You can't become tempted if you just give in a little quicker.
The biggest temptation I believe is to feel comfortable, to feel like you've worked through all of that here on Earth, and are satisfied with this life.
Some have paid me an undeserved compliment by supposing that my Letters were the ripe fruit of many years' study in moral and ascetic theology. They forgot that there is an equally reliable, though less creditable, way of learning how temptation works.
If they really wanted us to resist temptation, they shouldn't a made it so damn tempting.
Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one.
Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?
Saintliness is also a temptation.
Don't savor temptations; don't dwell on them or toy with them or replay them over and over in your mind. The more you think about a particular temptation, the more enticing it becomes.
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
Desire is craving enough to sacrifice for
My temptations have been my Masters of Divinity.
Expect temptation to your last breath.
O help me Father in heaven to overcome and resist temptation in every form or shape.
I'm not tempted by things I've decided are off-limits, but once I've started something, I have trouble stopping. If I never do something, it requires no self-control for me; if I do something sometimes, it requires enormous self-control.
Temptation: Recognize it for what it is, and then reject it - immediately and without compromise.
You and I must live temptation-aware; to fail to do so is to fail to recognize the fallenness of the world that happens to be the address where we live.
To tempt and be tempted are closely allied; and in spite of all the finest moral maxims buried in the mind, when emotion interferes, when feeling makes its appearance, one is already much further involved that one realizes, and I have still not learnt how to prevent its appearance.
Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad.
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.
is able to resist that temptation.
Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
If you are a believer in Jesus Christ, you have power and you can resist temptation!
The most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the disinclinations of the flesh, its indolence and sluggishness, our tendency to become creatures of habit.