Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one.
Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
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.
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
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.
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.