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Temptation Quotes


"No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object."


"Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it."


"Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor."


"As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon."


"That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it."


"The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little."


"The temptation to spend money increases as a person's opportunities increase."


"Fornication deprives a person of his spiritual covering."


"The devil will do everything to get you disappointed in God."


"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."


"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it."


"One of the main roots of ungodliness is being a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God."


"When you come to God, the devil will remind you about the pleasures of sin."


"Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought."


"Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances."


"Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you."


"You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd."


"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."


"Every sexual sin begins with flattery."


"Wisdom makes it even more likely that you will be exposed to the danger of fornication."


"Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains."


"Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again."


"Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken."


"Fornication is a snare that a person sets for himself."


"We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are."


"But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor."


"Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse."


"Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body."


"The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them."


"Selfishness is one of the most destructive forces in man that is why life demands for its death."


"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation."


"As soon as a person gives place to the devil in his life, the devil has this person hooked."


"There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing."


"We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives."


"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow."


"Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself."


"Temptation is a strong weapon that Satan uses against the children of God."


"I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them."
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