490 Quotes About Temptation

Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.

One of the more serious temptations which stifles boldness and zeal is a defeatism, which turns us into querulous and disillusioned pessimists, sourpusses.

Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.

We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!

The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.

When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.

I resist the temptation to curate my apartment.

If death itself were to die, would it have a ghost, and would the ghost of death visit the dead in the guise of someone alive, if only to fright them from any temptation to return?

Say not that thou hast royal blood in thy veins; say not that thou art born of God if thou canst not prove thy pedigree by daring to be holy!