#temptation

He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life. ↗

— Robert Redford

#classic #darkness #discovery #falling #gift

We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#lives #our #our lives #points #several

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#never #succumb #temptation

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

#destruction #either #exercise #food #his

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#man #temptation #weapon #woman

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#believe #foreign #foreign policy #policy #psychiatry

If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors. ↗

— Hans Kung

#certain #certainly #children #could #impulses

These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

#become #days #great #many #sports

The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue. ↗

— George A. Smith

#enthusiasm #ever #feels #god #made

If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation. Like the old knights in war time, we must sleep with helmet and breastplate buckled on, for the arch-deceiver will seize our first unguarded hour to make us his prey. The Lord keep us watchful in all seasons, and give us a final escape from the jaw of the lion and the paw of the bear. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#temptation #vulnerability #temptation