490 Quotes About Temptation

Success cannot resist the temptation of consistency and persistence.

He had more of Carina during these summer months than he’d ever had with her when they were fuck buddies and attempting to date. She was nothing yet she was everything to him. Jaxon wouldn’t do anything to jeopardize that.

Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify Your truth.

If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could?

Then faith's paradox is this: that the single individual is higher than the universal, that the single individual determines his relation to the universal through his relation to God, not his relation to God through his relation through the universal... Unless this is how it is, faith has no place in existence; and faith is then a temptation.

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

If I’ve already thought through a situation and have a response prepared ahead of time in the event temptation rears its ugly head, it is that much easier to resist.

Temptation is the voice of reason without its clothes on.

You never know what you're made of until temptation comes knocking. The only temptation I've given in to is to have one more slice.