Do today's duty, fight today's temptation; do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.
What Clint Eastwood meant was when you are directing and starring in a film, there's a temptation to spend more time on the other actors' performances, and then when you get to your own work, you kind of go, "Oh, yeah, well, let's cut that. " And he said, "Take your time and make sure you do your work right. " It's especially good advice if you're going from one career to another.
Freedom and victory belong to those who remain true and strong despite temptation to be dishonest and weak.
Mixing with groups of people can be enjoyed, it is pleasing in a way that cannot be explained other than the temptation to become closer to one or the other.
We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!
Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray.
There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.
Our great Pattern hath showed us what our deportment ought to be in all suggestions and temptations. When the devil showed Him "all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them," to tempt Him withal, He did not stand and look upon them, viewing their glory, and pondering their empire. . . . but instantly, without stay, He cries, "Get thee hence, Satan. " Meet thy temptation in its entrance with thoughts of faith concerning Christ on the cross; this will make it sink before thee. Entertain no parley, no dispute with it, if thou wouldst not enter into it.
I resist my temptations in order to feel i am free.
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
As the worlds getting filled with temptations, were getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.
For worship is, essentially, the reverse of sin. Sin began (and begins) when we succumb to the temptation, "You shall be as gods. " We make ourselves the center of the universe and dethrone God. By contrast, worship is giving God his true worth; it is acknowledging Him to be the Lord of all things, and the Lord of everything in our lives. He is, indeed, the Most High God!
We Catholics must admit that there is a constant temptation among us to avoid the lectionary and the Word of God for private and pious devotions that usually have little power to actually change us or call our ego assumptions into question.
I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.
When we find ouselves in some grave danger we must not lose courage but firmly trust in God, for where there is the greatest danger, there is also the greatest help from Him who wants to be called our 'Help' in times of peace and in times of tribulation.
That's the temptation of the devil: "Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!"
Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.
If you're a so-called minority writer, the temptation is to write for the majority. . . I refuse to do that.
Man has always been dexterous at confusing evil with good. That was Adam's and Eve's problem, and it is our problem today. If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.