Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
DisciplineSelf-ControlTemptationDesire It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
EvilSinceritySelf-awarenessTemptation I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
SinTemptationHuman FrailtySpiritual DangerDisgrace Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.
HumilityIntegrityTemptationPower DynamicsSelf-Respect I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.
SaintlinessHumanityTemptationAspirationMorality Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
Self-ControlMoralityTemptationFateConsequence To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
TemptationCowardiceProtection There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
TemptationSelf-ControlHumorInsight I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
DeprivationTemptationDisobediencePunishment I never had anything good, no sweet, no sugar; and that sugar, right by me, did look so nice, and my mistress's back was turned to me while she was fighting with her husband, so I just put my fingers in the sugar bowl to take one lump, and maybe she heard me, for she turned and saw me. The next minute, she had the rawhide down.
