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Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.
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.
You don't have to get in or out of a position all at once. Avoid the temptation of wanting to be completely right.
In times of temptation, of sorrow, of peace and of blessing, let us pray always, both alone and with our families.
The danger inherent in all force grows stronger when it is likely to gain success, for then it becomes temptation.
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.
Most humans feel the transcendent temptation, the emotional drive to festoon the universe with large-scale meaning.
Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.
The possibility to go on indefinitely with our lives may become a reality and it will present us with a temptation.
I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.
There is no point in praying for victory over temptation if we are not willing to make a commitment to say no to it.
A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.
When the tempter me pursueth With the sins of all my youth, And half damns me with untruth, Sweet Spirit, comfort me!
Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.
I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.
A total commitment to anxiously serve the Lord and others is the surest way to overcome temptations of the adversary.
I like to talk to myself ahead of time so when temptation comes, I've already made up my mind that I have the victory.
Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?
Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.
We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.
Power was my weakness and my temptation. And Miguel Sano is very tempting. But he is not weak. He is very, very strong.
Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.
Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.
Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.
Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?
I always loved Little Anthony and the Imperials. They were like the precursors of the Temptations. I loved their music.
Resist the temptation to compare yourself to others. This is crucial in order to be able to manifest whatever you want.
For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.
The besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry.
Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.
What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.
Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.
And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.
So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.
Today, the greatest challenge facing American evangelicals is not persecution from the world, but seduction by the world.
The nature of photography has always resisted that temptation of interpretation. I look, and what I see looks back at me.
The film The Last Temptation of Christ, no matter what its defenders say, was a slap in the face to Christians everywhere.
We should have a strong president. Strong enough to resist the temptation of taking power that a president shouldn't have.
PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.
Obviously, there's the temptation to sit back and smile, .. But there's so much at stake, we have to do our due diligence.
It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.
There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.
What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably.
...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.
Have you been tormented with fears and doubts? Bombarded with temptation to sin? Try praising the Lord, and watch Satan flee.
If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation.