Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Temptation Quotes
PovertyStrategyTemptationWealth Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
CharityFearSpiritualityTemptationVirtue Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
CowardiceProtectionTemptation There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
IndependenceInfluenceLifestyleSelf-awarenessTemptation Temptation is just the feeling that you're the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That's something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I'm in, the same thing exists! But it's 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you're in the limelight, you can get anything you want.
PrioritiesSacrificeSelf-ControlSpiritualityTemptation Those who use tobacco, tea and coffee should lay these idols aside, and put their cost into the treasury of the Lord.
EvilSelf-awarenessSincerityTemptation 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.
DesireDisciplineSelf-ControlTemptation It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
ConsequenceFateMoralitySelf-ControlTemptation To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
ConsequencesMoralityMusicSpiritualityTemptation Music is made one of Satan's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly.
DisgraceHuman FrailtySinSpiritual DangerTemptation 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.
MarriageOpportunityTemptation Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
CorruptionIntegrityStrengthTemptationVulnerability If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.
CunningEvilTemptationWealth But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
HumilityIntegrityPower DynamicsSelf RespectTemptation I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.
AspirationHumanityMoralitySaintlinessTemptation 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.
CinemaControlInfluenceTemptationYouth One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.
ConsequencesHuman NatureTemptation And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
CravingsModerationTemptationWillpower Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.
HumorInsightSelf-ControlTemptation I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
DeprivationDisobediencePunishmentTemptation 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.
