The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement.
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.
The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.
Disunion by force is treason.
The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one.
Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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.