Quotes about Temptation

Lord, make me chaste - but not yet.

Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

There is nothing good to be had in the country, or, if there be, they will not let you have it.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Vice can be learnt, even without a teacher.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.

Do you really think... that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment... there is no weakness in that.

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.

The biggest human temptation is... to settle for too little.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.

No matter how hard you might try, you can't escape the spiritual bond between you and your Maker. You can't drink it away. You can't smoke it away. You can't sex it away.