Quotes About Giving Into Temptation

#1. Integrity is built by defeating the temptation to be dishonest; humility grows when we refuse to be prideful; and endurance develops every time you reject the temptation to give up.

Rick Warren

#2. The most common trait I have found in all successful people is that they have conquered the temptation to give up.

Peter Lowe

#3. Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that we are fidgeting until we die.

Martin Seligman

#4. The blessings of resisting temptation far outweigh the costs of giving into one.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

Oscar Wilde

#6. The kingdom of God . . . does not mean merely the salvation of certain individuals nor even the salvation of a chosen group of people. It means nothing less than the complete renewal of the entire cosmos, culminating in the new heaven and the new earth. Anthony Hoekema

Randy Alcorn

#7. We are giving in to the dangerous temptation to take the Jesus of the Bible and twist him into a version of Jesus we are more comfortable with.

David Platt

#8. We may feel that a particular habit 'isn't too bad,'but continually giving in to that habit weakens our wills against the onslaughts of temptation from other directions.

Jerry Bridges

#9. Give me, instead of beauty's bust,
A tender heart, a loyal mind,
Which with temptation I could trust,
Yet never linked with error find.

George Darley

#10. You must understand printing lies about Republican candidates is OK. It's called vetting. Printing the truth about liberals - that's called 'swift-boating'.

Howie Carr

#11. His money and lands were gone, and he did not care for the ways of people about him, but preferred to dream and write of his dreams. What he wrote was laughed at by those to whom he shewed it, so that after a time he kept his writings to himself,

H.P. Lovecraft

#12. But it's easy enough to ignore temptations when you are confident that there is someone waiting at home for your return. However, if that person is no longer a certainty, then it becomes harder and harder to escape even the least temptation which comes along.

Andrew James Pritchard

#13. I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.

George Eliot

#14. Bait is made to look SO good you OVERlook the trap. Whether scratched or scarred you ALWAYS get hurt giving in to Temptation.

LeCrae

#15. The devil and temptations also do give occasion unto us somewhat to learn and understand the Scriptures, by experience and practice. Without trials and temptations we should never understand anything thereof; no, not although we diligently read and heard the same.

Martin Luther

#16. If you decide that you cannot beat a temptation, what you are really doing is giving yourself permission to be irresponsible.

Gary Zukav

#17. I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

Dan Brown

#18. Every time the enemy throws us off our guard, and we give way to temptation, he gains so much; he weakens us and strengthens himself; when we resist temptation, it strengthens the Saints and weakens the enemy.

Brigham Young

#19. You have to encourage people not to give in to the temptation to be normal, even if it isn't easy - because when you're young, you really want to belong.

Clemence Poesy

#20. I often long to ... give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation.

Bertrand Russell

#21. I write a manifesto and I want nothing, yet I say certain things, and in principle I am against manifestoes, as I am also against principles.

Tristan Tzara

#22. At one time or another, we have all faced the temptation to disconnect by giving someone the silent treatment. After being married to Joel for more than twenty-one years, I have learned that is not the best way to handle a disagreement.

Victoria Osteen

#23. Weakness is giving in to temptation. Strength is resisting it.

Guillermo Del Toro

#24. Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away Paradise. Therefore in all temptations let us consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.

Richard Sibbes

#25. Get off, luv, I'm high as a bloody kite. No telling what I'll do.

Jeaniene Frost