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The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken
God is good but not safe, and the urge for safe art is often a worldly temptation away from goodness.
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
We must resist the temptation of once again turning America into the traditional bogeyman of the left.
Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.
By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world.
When God has not taken away our trouble or temptation yet, with His grace in our lives, we are content.
I have one reason why you should walk away from that temptation right now. One reason: God. Is. Better.
I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame And every time I pass that way I always hear my name
When you're young, the temptation is maybe to think, 'More is more.' But a lot of the time less is more.
Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.
Women are not thousands of temptations to hell. They are thousands of reminders of the beauty of heaven.
Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation.
Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.
'Honey, I'm Good' is a song about temptation, and we wanted to show what is possible if you can beat it.
What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.
Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. And the results always illusory.
Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it-the quality of temptation.
The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low.
For they who think they make an end of temptation by yeilding to it, only set themselves on fire the more.
If you're a so-called minority writer, the temptation is to write for the majority... I refuse to do that.
Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.
As a young man, the temptation was to drink the minibar dry. I did all that - now I prefer to get outdoors.
People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.
I have found that people who can successfully resist temptation invariably lead depressingly stunted lives.
Freedom and victory belong to those who remain true and strong despite temptation to be dishonest and weak.
The two great words of antiquity are behold and beware. Behold the possibilities and beware the temptations.
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.
He has resisted Temptation for Centuries, A stone cold warrior whose frozen heart refuses to thaw- Until Her.
The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for.
The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.
We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.
Unwillingness to accept God's 'way of escape' from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within.
Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.
I try to keep in shape and I always have to check myself. Whenever I binge eat, sweets are the one temptation.
The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.
From the cradle to the grave, temptations all around. But no matter how good the fix, its gonna take you down.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me.
Scripture doesn't promise that God will remove temptation, only that you'll be given strength to withstand it.
Jesus's first temptation was to be relevant: to turn stones into bread. Oh, how often I wished I could do that!
Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.
Your temptations are from the devil and from Hell; but your sufferings and afflictions are from God and Heaven.
There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.
I retired because I had to, not because I wanted to. The temptation to get back in the ring is very much there.
You need to gain the confidence that you're doing enough on film. You must resist the temptation to do too much.
A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.
You know, there's that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound - well, to give yourself a bit of mystery.
We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.