#temptation

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

#am #any #deeply #fear #forgo

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#eden #ever #garden #here #since

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

— Edwin Louis Cole

#against #bulwark #deception #even #god

I beg you to look at the promising boys and beautiful girls in your homes and in your communities, and then you will not put these temptations in their way. ↗

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#beautiful girls #beg #communities #homes #i

I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#temptation

Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable? ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#temptation #temptation

Get thee behind me, Satan! ↗

— P.C. Cast

#temptation #zoey-redbird #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

Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery? ↗