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“It is opportunity that makes the thief.”

Opportunity Temptation Thieves

Author:Seneca the Younger

“The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.”

Opportunity Skills Devil Temptation Reckoning

Author:George Eliot

“Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.”

Opportunity Temptation

Author:John Quincy Adams

“Resisted temptations become lost opportunities.”

Opportunity Lost Temptation Lost Opportunity

Author:Margaret Ayer Barnes

“The elegance of dress, of motion, and of manners gives a lustre to beauty, and inflames the senses through the imagination. Luxurious entertainments, midnight dances, and licentious spectacles, present at once temptation and opportunity to female frailty. From such dangers the unpolished wives of the barbarians were secured by poverty, solitude, and the painful cares of a domestic life.”

Source: The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with notes by Milman and Guizot. Ed. by W. Smith

“There is a lot of difference between tempting and leading into error. God tempts but does not lead into error. To tempt is to provide opportunities for us to do certain things if we do not love God, but putting us under no necessity to do so. To lead into error is to compel a man necessarily to conclude and follow a falsehood.”

Ifs Men Doe Certain Opportunity Differences Errors Temptation God Love Falsehood Tempting

Author:Blaise Pascal