Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't.
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Steve Maraboli
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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Mae West
What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?
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P.g. Wodehouse
God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is doing quite well in going a month without murder, for he fought his chemical imbalance and succeeded; oppositely, perhaps the healthy, able and...
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Criss Jami
If you give in to temptation, you may have a moment of enjoyment, but then you'll have a lifetime of regrets.
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Anthony T. Hincks
More Quotes By Marilynne Robinson
Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.
There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.
When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.
I felt, as I have often felt, that my failing the truth could have no bearing at all on the Truth itself, which could never conceivably be in any sense dependent on me or on anyone.
There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse or parable of an embracing, incomprehensible reality. It makes no sense at all because it is the eternal breaking in...
