(232 quotes found)
“At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.”
Cesare Pavese
“A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words, “Who can this be? Even the wind and the waves obey him.””
Saint Augustine
“Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless.”
Ovid
“Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.”
Lane Olinghouse
“It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.”
George Muller
“Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.”
Sam Levenson
“About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.”
Tom Wilson
“Be cautious. Opportunity does the knocking for temptation too.”
Al Batt
“If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Virtue is insufficient temptation.”
George Bernard Shaw
