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Every Christian is endued with a power whereby he is enabled to resist temptations.
God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.
To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.
When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.
It is too late if we wait until the moment of temptation before making our decision.
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.
As far as R&B, I listen to a lot of old school like the Temptations and Chris Brown.
I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation.
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts.
There is always a temptation for governments: see a problem and announce a quick fix.
Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.
Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.
As your temptations become greater, so does your ability to make responsible choices.
What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.
Trials are nothing else but the forge that purifies the soul of all its imperfections.
We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist
You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
I listen to a lot of old stuff like Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, and The Temptations.
He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop.
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
There's always a temptation to get in front of the camera. It's part of my personality.
We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be.
I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.
Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.
The possibility of remedying imprudent actions is commonly an inducement to commit them.
If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?
I love the soul that dares tread the temptations of his years beneath his youthful feet.
Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.
The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.
Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution?
Soul's Castle fell at one blast of temptation, But many a worm had pierced the foundation.
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.
If we didn't have to stand against temptation, we'd never know our own spiritual strength.
The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them.
Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.
The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.
Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.
Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.
I often long to . . . give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation.
Fish is meant to tempt as well as nourish, and everything that lives in water is seductive.
An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones.