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Quotes about Temptation

He was tempted to lean over and kiss away her tears.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Back at two o'clock in the Roi George corridor the beauty of Nicole had been the beauty of Rosemary as the beauty of Leonardo's girl was to that of the girl of an illustrator. Dick moved on through the rain, demoniac and frightened, the passions of many men inside him and nothing simple that he could see.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
In ten seconds he had completely lost his appetite and gained on hundred thousand dollars.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Charley was twenty-six, with that faint musk of weakness hanging about him that is often mistaken for the scent of evil.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
You say that convention is all that really keeps you straight in this "woman proposition"; but it's more than that, Amory; it's the fear that what you begin you can't stop; you would run amuck, and I know whereof I speak; it's that half-miraculous sixth sense by which you detect evil, it's the half-realized fear of God in your heart.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Those who are faithful to God are protected and prospered. That comes as the result of serving God and keeping His commandments. But with those blessings comes the temptation to forget their source. It is easy to begin to feel the blessings were granted not by a loving God on whom we depend but by our own powers.
- Henry B. Eyring
Sin leads to wickedness and to hearts that become hardened to things of the Spirit.
- Joseph Wirthlin
We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
- Thomas a Kempis
Obedience brings peace in decision making. If we have firmly made up our minds to follow the commandments, we will not have to redecide which path to take when temptation comes our way.
- James Faust
Every time I say 'no' to a small temptation, I strengthen my will to say 'no' to a greater one.
- Mother Angelica
There has always been discouragement, negativism, and temptation in the world because of Lucifer.
- Joseph Wirthlin
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
- William Hazlitt