“A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.”
C.S. Lewis
“What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people, is that they don't want to discourage it completely.”
Benjamin Franklin
“As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.”
Robert Orben
“What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.”
Franklin P. Jones
“It's just too accessible. It's too easy. It's too big of a temptation for people.”
Richard Hopkins
“It's neat. Sometimes you try to resist the temptation of thinking you've heard all the stories and tuning people out, because you'll hear some pretty unique stories. You can't believe how many people came up to me and said, 'Oh, we knew you were going to hit it.' Most people have been really great about it.”
Chris Burke
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