Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.
The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.
By the time you're 18, 19, you know yourself, and you shouldn't go against your gut feeling, which is a temptation in the first year of university.
Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.
Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature.
When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.
Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.
Virtue is a positive quality developed by taking a firm stand for the right in temptation, or by the suffering endured in consequence of wrongdoing.
Pray that temptation may not come upon you, but when it does come, accept it as something not alien but your own.
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
Often the work of the Lord itself may be a temptation to keep us from that communion with Him which is so essential to the benefit of our own souls.
How do you possibly manage to turn talk of an angel into something perverted?
You might not believe in the devil, but do you believe evil lurks in this world?
She didn’t dare expose her heart the way she’d exposed her body.
Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves.
When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.
Premature satisfaction with half-success is a dream-killer of ambition , nobody should indulge in it.
No necesitas decirme lo que quieres, lo que es mejor para ti, porque ya lo sé, te conozco mejor que nadie ¿Cuándo lograras entenderlo?
If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.
I resist my temptations in order to feel i am free.
