Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one.
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.
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.
Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.
Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
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