'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.
One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
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.
Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of.
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.