T Quotes
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“Temptation leads to evolution and innovation and then to destruction.”
“Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.”
Source: The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland--For a Little While: A Tor.Com Original
“Temptation may even be a blessing to a man when it reveals to him his weakness and drives him to the almighty Savior. Do not be surprised, then, dear child of God, if you are tempted at every step of your earthly journey, and almost beyond endurance; but you will not be tempted beyond what you are able to bear, and with every temptation there will be a way of escape.”
“Temptation out of reach does you no good.”
Source: The Walt Longmire Mystery Series Boxed Set
“Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.”
“Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.”
“Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality.”
“Temptation sat before her, compelling as the sea. Gleaming silver, green leather, the nearly silent rumble of engine...”
Source: The Lost Heiress
“Temptation to behave is terrible.”
“Temptation turns you. It makes you into something you never dreamed, it presses you to give up everything you ever loved, it calls you to sell your soul for one, fleeting moment.”
“Temptation Versus Sin
I think the other thing we need to remember is there is a distinction between temptation and sin. We see that in the Bible in the Lord’s prayer. We need to be delivered from our temptations, but we need to be forgiven for our sins.
James reminds us that temptation gives birth to sin (James 1:15). It’s not itself sin. So the two are not the same thing. When we’re tempted, we need to flee temptation and to stand faithfully underneath it. I take it that it’s possible, therefore, to be tempted without sinning.
We’re not told that as we grow as Christians temptations will just disappear from life. We are promised that God will enable us to stand under temptation. I want to say that the presence of temptation is not itself a sin.
James tells me that when I experience temptation, I shouldn’t blame God. I shouldn’t say, “Well that’s God’s fault that I’m tempted in this way.” I need to recognize the ways in which my own temptations are a reflection my fallen nature. They come from my own desires.
But I don’t think it’s right to say that having the capacity to be tempted is itself a sin. It’s a sign of our fallenness, but I want to repent of the ways I sinfully respond to temptation. I want to flee temptation itself. Otherwise, you’re saying to somebody, “Even if you’re not sinning, you’re still sinning, just because you’ve got the capacity to be tempted in a certain way.”
“Temptation...
What would the warning label in your life say? Something like this..
"You will think this is a way to ease the loneliness you feel. You will think it will make you feel all the things you deserve to feel: beautiful, respected, noticed, appreciated for who you are, and validated as special. You will think that you are the exception in being able to handle a flirty friendship without crossing any lines and that it won't hurt anyone. You will think this is going wonderful, because it stirs up such warm feelings in those places deep inside your heart that have felt cold for so long. You will think all those warm fuzzies are good for you. But it's all a lie. You are being blinded with desire. You are being made deaf to truth. You are reaching for a forbidden fruit that looks so good on the outside but is filled with razors on the inside. You can't even take a bite without getting cut. And, worst of all, even though you are bleeding from that first bite, you'll get so enamored with it's alluring sweetness that you'll keep eating it. You will devour this sin without realizing its devouring you. Trust me, your feelings are lying to you. This won't fix your disappointments. It will only multiply them into devastations.”
Source: It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered
“Temptation: the fiend at my elbow.”
“Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.”
Source: On the nature ... of indwelling sin in believers
“Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of our self-confidence.”
“Temptations are as thick as the leaves of the forest, and no one can be out of the reach of temptation unless he is dead. The great thing is to make people intelligent enough and strong enough, not to keep away from temptation, but to resist it.”
Source: Ingersoll: Fifty Great Selections, Lectures, Tributes, After Dinner Speeches and Essays, Carefully Selected from the Twelve Volume Dresden Edition of Colonel Ingersoll's Complete Works
“Temptations are like tramps. Treat them kindly, and they will return bringing others with them. Temptations are never so dangerous as when they come to us in a religious garb.”
“Temptations are part of life, part of growing up. We grapple with them often - in some instances for our lifetime - before we come to realize that it is not so much the victory as it is the struggle that is holy.”
“Temptations came to him, in middle age, tentatively and without insistence, like a neglected butcher-boy who asks for a Christmas box in February for no more hopeful reason that than he didn’t get one in December. He had no more idea of succumbing to them than he had of purchasing the fish-knives and fur boas that ladies are impelled to sacrifice through the medium of advertisement columns during twelve months of the year. Still, there was something impressive in this unasked-for renunciation of possibly latent enormities.”
Source: Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches
“Temptations cannot but come, but woe to those through whom they come.”
Source: The Book of Matthew
“Temptations come on some people for the cleansing of previous sins, on other for the beautification of their current perfection, and on yet others, as preparation for things to come, except temptations, which are for the increase of a man's faith and virtue, as it was with Job.”
“Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.”
Source: Miss Marjoribanks
“Temptations discover what you are.”
“Temptations don't appear nearly as harmful as the roads they lead you down.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.”
Source: Hesperides: or, The works both humane and divine of Robert Herrick ...
“Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.”
Source: The Oswald Chambers Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes
“Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.”
“Temptations may whisper, but prayer keeps him still. His weapon is prayer, the antidote to every sin. He conquers on his knees.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“Temptations to give up will dissolve once your dream starts pouring its power onto it.”
“Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work, become easier and simpler where they are made not in the fear of men, but only in the sight of God. He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work.”
“Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.”
Source: The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
“Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength.”
“Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair.”
“Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.”
Source: Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary
“Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.”
“Tempted to type meaningless twaddle all the time on Twitter...with alliteration, no less!”
“Tempting fate, much? If I was Fate, lounging around in stately Fate Mansion drinking Fate Cola and eating a big bowl of Fate Crispies and I heard a dismissive Scots accent saying something like that, I’d be revving up the Fatemobile to teach said Mr Tartanjocks a lesson in humility.”
Source: Graveyard Shift in Ghost Town
“Tempura of orange pumpkin brought still crackling from the kitchen; slices of yellowtail sashimi in a puddle of sesame sauce; grilled bamboo shoots on a wooden skewer and a dish of rice porridge. There is grilled cod's roe with a pin's point of fresh wasabi, pickled butterbur buds and the earliest fiddlehead fern, simmered in dashi broth and curled up like a caterpillar. A pale-blue dish is filled with mustard greens and ground sesame.
As the light lifts, the room fills with weak and watery sunshine and I am brought a bowl of suitably pale miso broth with matchsticks of dried nori and balls of chewy white mochi. As I lay down my chopsticks a pudding appears of green-tea blancmange with two rust-red goji berries. Dessert for breakfast is something I can get on top of.”
Source: A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts
“Tempus edax rerum.
Time that devours all things.”
“Tempus edax rerum. Time the devourer of everything.”
“Tempus Fugit”
Source: The Lost Symbol
“Tempus fugit (time flies).”
“Tempus never left a problem for another to solve. Tempus never let the pain or difficulty of an undertaking persuade him not to pursue a resolution his heart thought was right. Tempus never gave up.”
Source: Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko
“Tempus wanders eternally, bringing death to whomever loves him and being spurned by whomsoever he shall love.”
Source: Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko
“Tempus would be protected, better shielded from whatever the Stepson thought threatening, if love could heal and save.”
Source: The Sacred Band
“Temujin nodded. He had every intention to do his bit in the battle, like his mother.”
Source: Against Walls
“Temujin watched Borte's ballet, her elegance on the fulcrum of her hips.”
Source: Against Walls
“Temukan dirimu pada sahabat-sahabatmu”
“Temáticamente, encontramos en el libro algunas de las mismas ideas políticas que habían establecido Blas de Otero como el poeta social más importante de España; pero éstas se representa ahora en un texto complejo y autoreflexivo, muy diferente de las obras cerradas del poeta escritas durante los cincuenta.
Su mismo formato significa significativo: páginas en diferentes tipos de letra se combinan con otras que contienen dibujos, o solo títulos, o números de sección, o incluso aparentes comentarios («lápiz con que tracé aquella carta a los dioses está gastado, romo, mordisqueado», Otero, 1970, [122]).
La interacción entre el texto, los dibujos de Joaquín Alcón y la disposición tipográfica, crea algo parecido a una obra ecfrástica, que combina efectos literarios y pictóricos. Se omiten los números de página, que tienen que deducirse a partir del índice; para mí, esto señala un esfuerzo para mantener la integridad visual de una obra de arte.”
Source: Historia poesia española siglo xx
“Temâyülât-ı kalbiyye irâde-i cüziyyeden değildir!
(Kalbin nerelere meyl edeceği yani neyi ve kimi seveceği insanın iradesinde değildir)”