Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
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.
Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one.
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
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.
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