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• Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Myself, Find, Temptation, Lead

• If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I rise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savour) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

  E. B. White

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Temptation

• I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.

  Mae West

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Temptation

• Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

  Robert Browning

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Meet, Temptation

• Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

  Billy Sunday

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Devil, Temptation

• Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values – and witnesses.

  Franklin P. Jones

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Temptation, Nothing

• Temptation to behave is terrible.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Temptation

• When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

  Gerald G. Jampolsky

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Temptation, Judgement

• Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human Beings, Temptation

• The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.

  George A. Smith

  Topics in God

  Tags in Mystery, Temptation, Spirit

• Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

  Georg Simmel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Secrecy, Temptation

• No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.

  Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Value, Temptation

• Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

  Thomas Boston

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Temptation

• Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we’ll find it.

  Sam Levenson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Temptation

• By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world.

  Roger Mahony

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in United, Temptation

• Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

  Robert South

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Against, Needs, Temptation

• Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bitterness, Temptation

• Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money. It doesn’t appear to belong to anyone. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Expenditure, Temptation

• Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Temptation, Combine
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  The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

  T. S. Eliot

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Deed, Greatest, Reason, Temptation