Overcoming Temptation Quotes

#1. I just want to lobby for God.

Billy Graham

#2. 'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

William Penn

#3. What is it with that argument? Why is it that you have to jump through hoops of fire to find out that someone's decent? The fact that someone is a bitch on the surface says heaps about them.

Melina Marchetta

#4. When you begin to pursue your promised land, you get a lot of prohibitions and temptations

Sunday Adelaja

#5. Were you to ask what are the means of overcoming temptations, I would answer: The first means is prayer; the second is prayer; the third is prayer; and you should you ask me a thousand times, I would repeat the same.

Alphonsus Liguori

#6. Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

Charles V

#7. I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.

Felicity Kendal

#8. Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.

Ramana Maharshi

#9. In other words Jesus went into the desert to confront His enemy and throw down the gauntlet. He would prove Himself to be the legitimate shepherd of Israel by overcoming the temptations that had undone all of Israel's previous kings, including His mighty ancestor, King David.

Charles R. Swindoll

#10. What Saint has ever won his crown without first contending for it?

Jerome

#11. All of my art is suitcase-sized. I always paint in mediums that dry pretty quickly because I've got to throw them in my suitcase and go. And I have so much because of that, because it's what I've always done to pass the time, and I like it.

Alison Mosshart

#12. What I know now is that we're all interconnected and that's a really beautiful thing. We have links to everyone else in our lives and in the world. Different people have different journeys for different reasons. You can't judge, but you can celebrate that there are connections everywhere.

Jane Seymour

#13. It is a sin when I place myself deliberately in the place of temptation ... either because I enjoy the prospect or because I'm not determined enough in my desire to overcome it.

Alistair Begg

#14. YouTube is such a funny little world. You can create a fanbase.

Lindsey Stirling

#15. To her lover a beautiful woman is a delight; / To a monk she's a distraction; / To a mosquito, a good meal. It makes the point well: how things seem depends on the lens or filter through which we look at them.

Tara Bennett-Goleman

#16. Holiness is not freedom from temptation, but power to overcome temptation.

G. Campbell Morgan

#17. In one survey, respondents listed Princeton as one of the country's top ten law schools. The problem? Princeton doesn't have a law school

Alexandra Robbins

#18. Ethics to me is very important.

Al-Waleed Bin Talal

#19. Each temptation leaves us better or worse; neutrality is impossible.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#20. Realize that enough hidden strength lies within you to overcome all obstacles and temptations. Bring forth that indomitable power and energy.

Paramahansa Yogananda