Temptation quotations

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◆ The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.

- Laurence J. Peter99

◆ Whatever their bodies do affects their souls. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out...

- C.S. Lewis99

◆ The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.

- Will Rogers99

◆ Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't.

- Steve Maraboli99

◆ What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?

- P.G. Wodehouse99

◆ My head spins as I glance away, refusing to get sucked back into his gaze when so much is at risk.

- Emily Giffin99

◆ dangerous chemistry

- Emily Giffin99

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

- Jane Seabrook99

◆ Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.

- Sivananda Saraswati99

◆ The very good people did not convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you felt the world outside tugging at one with all its golden hands - and you hated the things it asked of one; you hated happiness bought by disloyalty and cruelty and indifference. That was what I'd never known before - and it's better than anything I've known.

- Edith Wharton99

◆ Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

- Margaret Atwood99

◆ Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?

- Margaret Atwood99

◆ I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.

- Robert Louis Stevenson99

◆ But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. No, I do not wish for such triumphs, Frodo son of Drogo.

- J.R.R. Tolkien99

◆ The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon us as sinners. If we could answer it then we would not be sinners. We could make something else responsible...The theological question does not arise about the origin of evil but about the real overcoming of evil on the Cross; it ask for the forgiveness of guilt, for the reconciliation of the fallen world

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer99