Top 77 Tempts Quotes
#1. Our fleshly nature tempts us to put ourselves above others or seek a position or place for ourselves instead of allowing others to have it.
David Jeremiah
#2. I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
James Russell Lowell
#3. The devil tempts us to bring out the worst in us, but the Father tests us to bring out the best in us.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#4. Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.
George Chapman
#5. On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
#6. Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will
my soul do thy lord?
Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom.
Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus?
Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.
(It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery)
Christopher Marlowe
#7. A FLOWER THAT SMILES TODAY , TOMORROW DIES. ALL THAT WE WISH TO STAY, TEMPTS AND THEN FILES
Thomas Gray
#8. TO THE LADY JESSICA-
May this place give you as much pleasure as it has given me. Please permit the room to convey a lesson we learned from the same teachers: the proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
My kindest wishes,
MARGOT LADY FENRING
Frank Herbert
#9. Trademaster," he said.....
"Who is he?" Claire asked again.
"He is Evil. I don't know how else to describe it. He is Evil, and like all evil, he has enormous power. He tempts. He taunts. And he takes.
Lois Lowry
#10. The thought of people reading in the sun, on a beach, tempts me to recommend dark books, written in the shadow of loneliness, despair, and death. Let these revelers feel a chill as they loll on their towels.
Anatole Broyard
#11. Satan always tempts the pure - the others are already his.
Fulton J. Sheen
#12. Andrew Carnegie noted in 1891, "The parent who leaves his son enormous wealth generally deadens the talents and energies of the son and tempts him to lead a less useful and less worthy life than he otherwise would.
Leonard E. Burman
#13. Because of Christ's resurrection power at work in us, greater is he that is in us than the Evil One who tempts us (1 John 4:4).
Bryan Chapell
#15. I love a nice cooking show. It's as aesthetically pleasing as any other thing that tempts the senses, I suppose.
Janeane Garofalo
#16. The charm of horror only tempts the strong
Jean Lorrain
#17. Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
Alexander Pope
#18. The Devil never tempts us with more success than when he tempts us with a sight of our own good actions.
Thomas F. Wilson
#19. He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses
The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed
Not incorruptible of faith, not proof
Against temptation.
John Milton
#20. Like a Siren, it tempts me with whispered promises of the ever-elusive Normal Life.
David Arnold
#21. If it is the devil that tempts the young to enjoy themselves, is it not the same personage that persuades the old to condemn their enjoyment? And is not condemnation perhaps merely a form of excitement appropriate to old age?
Bertrand Russell
#23. The three classic ways in which the Devil tempts us are with a threat, a promise or a seduction.
Paulo Coelho
#24. I look at him and he doesn't scare me. He lures me. He tempts me, exhilarates me. He makes me want to claim him as if I'm claiming back a part of me that was once lost. Makes me want to tame him. Let him tame me.
Katy Evans
#25. Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.
Marcus Aurelius
#26. Any structure that has a ranking system tempts you to try to climb it.
Lee Child
#27. There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to bitterly want what they can't have and ungratefully not want what is readily available to them.
Robert Ringer
#29. Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future ...
Bill Gates
#30. Without thinking, I asked, "Are you afraid of temptation?"
He shook his head. "God, no. Just being with you, just seeing you. Fuck." He mostly swallowed the expletive, his hips rolling in a way that made me think the movement was instinctual, then added on a rush, "You breathing tempts me.
Penny Reid
#31. Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not grace.
Philip Yancey
#32. Satan does not tempt us just to make us do wrong things- he tempts us to make us lose what God has put into us through regeneration, namely, the possibility of being of value to God.
Oswald Chambers
#33. One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
E. M. Forster
#34. Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.
Robert Herrick
#35. Society tempts me to its service by honours and riches and the good opinion of my fellows; but I am indifferent to their good opinion, I despise honours and I can do very well without riches.
W. Somerset Maugham
#36. [On writing biography:] ... every human life is at once so complex and so simple, so perplexing and so clear, so superficial and so profound, that any attempt to present it as a unified, consistent whole, to enclose it within a rigid frame, inevitably tempts one to cheat or to falsify.
Iris Origo
#37. God never tempts any man. That is Satan's business.
Billy Graham
#38. But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
Alexander Pope
#39. The world tempts us either by attaching us to it in prosperity, or by filling us with fear of adversity. But faith overcomes this in that we believe in a life to come better than this one, and hence we despise the riches of this world and we are not terrified in the face of adversity.
Thomas Aquinas
#41. It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#42. The devil tempts us not; 'tis we who tempt him, beckoning his skill with opportunity.
George Eliot
#43. Chaos is impatient. It's random. And above all it's selfish. It tears down everything just for the sake of change, feeding on itself in constant hunger. But Chaos can also be appealing. It tempts you to believe that nothing matters except what you want.
Rick Riordan
#44. The historic idea that the devil tempts men had this remarkable effect, it produced the man of iron who fought; the modern idea of blaming his heredity or his circumstances produces the man who gives in at once.
Oswald Chambers
#45. Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.
Marguerite Duras
#46. The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward.
Horace Mann
#47. James 1:13 specifically says that God tempts no one. God may test, but He never tempts to evil. A test is for growth; temptation is toward evil. Not
R.C. Sproul
#48. Evil tempts every soul, but a weak soul tempts evil.
Ella Leya
#49. Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.
Joseph Sobran
#50. The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast terrible in-between. But there is still time to seize that one last fragile moment.
J. Michael Straczynski
#51. A mask tempts the wearer to play out carnal fantasies and, come daylight, the perfume of a stranger's sex on your flesh and clothes can be blamed or thanked on the metamorphosis stirred by the mystery of the mask.
Chloe Thurlow
#52. They only the victory win,
Who have fought the good fight and have vanquished the demon that tempts us within;
Who have held to their faith unseduced by the prize that the world holds on high;
Who have dared for a high cause to suffer, resist, fight
if need be, to die.
William Wetmore Story
#53. Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tepmts empty posturing.
Henry Kissinger
#54. Not all that tempts your wandering eyes
And heedless hearts, is lawful prize;
Nor all that glisters gold.
Thomas Gray
#55. Divine does not tempt us to see what's in our hearts, it tempts us so we could see what's in our hearts.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#56. The circus collects the outsiders like a flame tempts moths.
Laura Lam
#57. For a young and presumptuous poet a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts him to personalities, which are not always forgiven after he has repented and become ashamed of them.
Robert Southey
#58. The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
Frank Herbert
#59. 'Tis dangerous to think - For who by thinking tempts his jealous Fate, Is straight arraign'd as Traytor to the State, And none that come within the Verge of Sense, Have to Preferment now the least Pretence ...
John Wilmot
#60. From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb which says that the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil.
Charles Caleb Colton
#61. The apple which tempts my characters is the one that will remove the knowledge of good and evil. I suppose it's something of a reversal of the conventional Eden story: Freedom of thought is perhaps the greatest good, and needs to be fought for and sacrificed for.
John Christopher
#62. Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
Martial
#63. The devil tempts that he may ruin; God tests that he may crown.
Ambrose
#64. Nietzsche's point is that the world does not present itself as an indifferent array of inert facts. The world tempts and repulses, threatens and charms; certain features impress themselves upon us, others recede into the perphery, unnoticed. Our experience of the world is fundamentally value-laden.
Paul Katsafanas
#65. The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.
Norm MacDonald
#66. The goal of temptation is to make you fall. So it is the devil who tempts you, not God!
Pedro Okoro
#67. I began to feel lighthearted. Don't ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.
Tanith Lee
#68. A test isn't really a test unless failing it truly tempts you ...
Jessiqua Wittman
#69. I am of a different mind ten times in the course of a day. But I resist the devil, and often it is with a fart that I chase him away. When he tempts me with silly sins I say, 'Devil, yesterday I broke wind too. Have you written it down on your list?
Martin Luther
#70. Wine is like women. It tempts you; it comforts you; it confuses you and can even turn on you when you least expect it. It can be your friend one day and your enemy the next.
Alton Brown
#71. Sometimes the only thing which truly tempts us is the thing which we cannot have.
Liz Carlyle
#72. Success tempts many to their ruin.
Phaedrus
#74. The power of a kiss is a heady pleasure, one that teases the mind, warms the heart, lifts the soul and tempts the body.
Charlotte Featherstone
#75. I'm done with girls on rocks! I've painted them for thirteen years and I could paint them and sell them for thirteen more. That's the peril of the commercial art game. It tempts a man to repeat himself. it's an awful thing to get to be a rubber stamp. I'm quitting my rut now while I'm still able.
Maxfield Parrish
#76. Sometimes the devil tempts me to believe in God.
Bill Vaughan
#77. But you also admitted to her being in the shadows and not having a clear view of him."
"What would be his motive?"
"Perhaps he saw me kissing Mary."
"Killing the man for kissing your betrothed seems a bit drastic."
I would, he thought, surprised by the vehement behind the words.
Lorraine Heath
