Quotes On temptation

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Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.

-Charles Stanley

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The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

-Northrop Frye

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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

-Oscar Wilde

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The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

-James A. Michener

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Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.

-Armstrong Williams

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Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.

-Theodore Bikel

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Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.

-John Owen

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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 Jampolsky

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Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.

-Pope John Paul II

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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

-E. Stanley Jones

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Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

-Joey Adams

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The prospects for a coherent, hilarious and consistent American comedy seem to lessen every year, as the poor waterlogged, gassy corpse called 'Evan Almighty' proved when it floated ashore recently. So there's a temptation to think too highly of Robin Williams's uneven but occasionally funny 'License to Wed.'

-Stephen Hunter

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Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

-Edwin Louis Cole

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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

-Mark Twain

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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

-Charles de Gaulle

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For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

-Erma Bombeck

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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.

-Victoria Secunda

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I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself. These days there's far more pressure to make a mark, so the temptation is to make adventure television or personality shows. I hope the more didactic approach won't be lost.

-David Attenborough

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There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

-Walter Lippmann

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That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.

-Kenneth Scott Latourette

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

-George Bernard Shaw

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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

-Henry Ward Beecher

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All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

-John Locke

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Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.

-Jonah Hill

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I think when you're trying to produce a relationship on screen that doesn't actually exist, perhaps sometimes there's a temptation to look at each other more, to touch each other more.

-Paul Bettany

Temptation In Urdu

اشتعالک Isteaalik اغوا aghwa اکساؤ uksaa o بہکاؤ baehkaa o بہکاوا baehkaawa تحریص taehriis ترغیب targhiib فتنہ fitnah لالچ laalach لالچ دینے والا laalach

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  • Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going. — Charles Stanley
  • The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. — Northrop Frye
  • Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. — Oscar Wilde

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