Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
Every temptation that is resisted, every evil thought that is curbed, every desire that is subdued, every bitter word that is withheld, every noble aspiration that is encouraged, every sublime thought that is cultivated, adds to the development of will-force, good character, and attainment of eternal bliss and immortality.
Remember sometimes just the rush of having a crush is a temptation, even if it is inappropriate, but beware of playing with fire, you will get burned.
I won't stick around to see how much temptation I can take. God is not impressed with my ability to stand up to sin. He is more impressed by the obedience I show when I run from it.
Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
I resist my temptations in order to feel i am free.
No temptation, no pressure, no enticing can overcome us unless we allow such. If we make the wrong choice, we have no one to blame but ourselves.
There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.
I ain't no drinking man, but temptation got the best of me.
The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did.
Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim - not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good.
You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
You have to encourage people not to give in to the temptation to be normal, even if it isn't easy - because when you're young, you really want to belong.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. . . I can resist everything but temptation.
We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
The film The Last Temptation of Christ, no matter what its defenders say, was a slap in the face to Christians everywhere.
Women are not thousands of temptations to hell. They are thousands of reminders of the beauty of heaven.
And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation's path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.
The only thing I can't resist is temptation.
They (the consecrated) are men and woman who can awaken the world. Consecrated life is prophecy. God asks us to fly the nest and to be sent to the frontiers of the world, avoiding the temptation to 'domesticate' them. This is the most concrete way of imitating the Lord.