#temptation

The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations. ↗

— John Wycliffe

#higher #hill #life #loftier #stronger

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

#divine #knowledge #mission #perennial #possessed

By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#been #close #doors #large #resist

There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing. ↗

— David McCullough

#comes #just #keep #point #researching

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

#confuse #defeat #dreams #life #permanent

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#duties #felt #first #force #known

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

— E. Stanley Jones

#freedom #freedom from #living #mean #mistakes

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#makes #nothing #proper #resist #set

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#difficult #discourage #makes #many #people

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#doth #goad #loving #most #sin