Quotes About Resisting Temptations

#1. A live spent resisting temptations is a wasted life ... .

Paulo Coelho

#2. The way to Heaven is straight and narrow: they who wish to arrive at that place of bliss by walking in the paths of pleasure shall be disappointed; and therefore few reach it, because few are willing to use violence to themselves in resisting temptations.

Alphonsus Liguori

#3. He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#4. The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.

Adam McKay

#5. We have not yet learned that we are more powerful on our knees than behind the most powerful weapons that can be developed.

Billy Graham

#6. Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.

James L. Buckley

#7. In the bitter cold weather Pa could not be sure of finding any wild game to shoot for meat. The

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#8. Whatever we may do, excess will always keep its place in the heart of man, in the place where solitude is found. We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.

Albert Camus

#9. To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish.

Saadi

#10. 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

#11. Sexual temptations are lurking around every corner in our lives today! Resisting the temptation to gratify the flesh is a full-time job.

Gary Rohrmayer

#12. The blind also cry. (Les aveugles aussi pleurent)

Charles De Leusse

#13. When we look through the lens of each others' weaknesses, we make others' strengths irrelevant and their weaknesses more evident.

Stephen Covey