temptation

Obedience brings peace in decision making. If we have firmly made up our minds to follow the commandments, we will not have to redecide which path to take when temptation comes our way.

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is we'll find it.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father and mother if I allowed you to expose yourself to such temptation.'Well, I know I'm not a Christian and I'm beginning to doubt whether I'm a gentleman,' said Philip.

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life.

Honest bread is very well - it's the butter that makes the temptation.

There are several good protections against temptation but the surest is cowardice.

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life - never to resist an adequate temptation.

After listening to thousands of pleas for pardon to offenders I can hardly recall a case where I did not feel that I might have fallen as my fellow man had done if I had been subjected to the same demoralizing influences and pressed by the same temptations.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

Get thee behind me Satan.

Things forbidden have a secret charm.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down provided it is the right temptation put in the right spot.