Temptation

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw
Marriage
Opportunity
Popular
Temptation
I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
George Bernard Shaw
Temptation
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
George Bernard Shaw
Virtue
Temptation
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
William Shakespeare
Virtue
Sin
Temptation
These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.
Jim Sensenbrenner
Sports
Athletes
Temptation
We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.
Smokey Robinson
Temptation
Victims
I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.
John Polkinghorne
Science
Creation
Doctrine
Scientists
Temptation
Theology
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
Pope John Paul II
Challenge
Freedom
Man
Nationalism
Reality
Slavery
Temptation
Today
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
George Orwell
People
Saints
Temptation
Want
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
Robert Orben
People
Temptation
Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves.
Marvin Olasky
Age
Fighting
Importance
Temptation
It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it.
Bob Newhart
Work
Decision
Comedians
Temptation
It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.
George Muller
Enjoyment
Prayer
Reading
Satan
Spirit
Temptation
Word
When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
Marianne Moore
Experience
Temptation
Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.
Mary Wortley Montagu
Trust
Virtue
First
Force
Necessity
Temptation