(232 quotes found)
“Everything tempts the man who fears temptation”
French Proverb
“The greek word for temptation means to test, to try, to prove.”
Selwyn Hughes
“Every temptation is an opportunity to triumph over evil.”
Marc Williams
“When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.”
Gerald Jampolsky
“Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.”
Bible
“There is not any memory with less satisfaction in it than the memory of some temptation we resisted”
James Branch Cabell
“Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.”
William Butler Yeats
“Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil”
Mark Twain
“Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that roared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them”
John Bunyan
