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 Thomas Brooks
If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation? If your light and knowledge be not turned into practice, the more knowing a man you are, the more miserable a...
Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.
Preach the gospel to yourself, because as you consider who you are in light of God's perfect goodness, holiness and peace, you must soften toward others.
[I]t is not hasty reading--but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the bee’s touching of the flower, which gathers honey--but her abiding for a time upon the flower, which draws out...
There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.
