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There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do.
Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials.
O that one unguarded moment! / Were it mine to live again, / All the strength of its temptation / Would appeal to me in vain.
It is ill changing the creed to meet each rising temptation. The soul is truer than it seems, and refuses to be trifled with.
By understanding the nuances of the world around you and how to survive the temptations, you can rule anything. Even yourself
The temptation to add features to a program must be resisted as strongly as possible. This requires the dedication of a saint
If you decide that you cannot beat a temptation, what you are really doing is giving yourself permission to be irresponsible.
Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.
Bait is made to look SO good you OVERlook the trap. Whether scratched or scarred you ALWAYS get hurt giving in to Temptation.
If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
Believe it or not, when you fast in the Spirit, God makes you more equipped to deal with hunger, irritability, and temptation.
Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one.
The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.
Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!
artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.
The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.
It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.
Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers.
Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free
Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.
Maintaining the relationship. But there's also physical temptation and being on the same spiritual level, which can be difficult.
Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.
Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill.
The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood.
There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.
A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations.
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.
This is the great work of a man: always to take the blame for his own sins before God, and toexpect temptation to his last breath.
The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation.
Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.
All temptations can be handled easily when we know how, because no temptation is a temptation at all unless we are entertaining it.
Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away paradise. Therefore in all temptations consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.
When temptation comes your way, name that boastful, deceitful giant “Goliath!” and do with it as David did to the Philistine of Gath.
Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.
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.
I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines
There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan's first temptation of Adam and Eve: "Ye shall be as gods." (Gen. 3:5)
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.
You have a heritage honor it. You have posses a testimony share it. You will face temptations withstand it. You know the truth live it.
To pray against temptation, and yet rush into occasions, is to thrust your fingers into the fire, and then pray they might not be burnt.
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist the temptation to make the most of it.
Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.
There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.
In truth, it requires not only a large intellect, but a large heart, to judge with becoming charity of the peculiar temptations of riches.
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
I have switched on this modern laptop machine. And I have told myself that I must resist the temptation to start playing solitaire upon it.
Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.