Quotes of: Temptations Keyword

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

Henry Ward Beecher

Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.

Alexander MacLaren

There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.

Kathleen Wynne

Children may be born angels, but with all the temptations out there in the world, it takes work to try to keep them that way.

LZ Granderson

Where did you think playing with angels was going to get you?

Divine Temptation

Motivation is the greatest gift to stimulate the feable minded.

The Hour of Temptation

What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.

Steve Lacy

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

Robert Orben

But there was only so much temptation a man could resist without losing all respect for himself.

Michael Swanwick

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.

John Owen

In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation.

Kevin DeYoung

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

Northrop Frye

The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.

Jane Byrne

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

Anne Baxter

Being as it was one of my dreams to sing with one of the world's greatest groups, for me to join 'The Temptations' was a great blessing.

Ali-Ollie Woodson

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

James A. Michener

The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.

Lee H. Hamilton

I'd never say no to surgery in the future, because I feel like, as I get older, I'm going to face temptation more.

Marcia Cross

Believe it or not, when you fast in the Spirit, God makes you more equipped to deal with hunger, irritability, and temptation.

Monica Johnson

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.

Franklin P. Jones

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

James Branch Cabell