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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
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.
Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
As the world's getting filled with temptations, we're getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.
Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go.
The biggest temptation I believe is to feel comfortable, to feel like you've worked through all of that here on Earth, and are satisfied with this life.
You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires.
'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.