William Butler Yeats Quotes, Adversity Quotes, Temptation Quotes

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.

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He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed Not incorruptible of faith, not proof Against temptation.

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PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.

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No temptation, no pressure, no enticing can overcome us unless we allow such. If we make the wrong choice, we have no one to blame but ourselves.

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Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there.

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We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God's all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might.

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Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect.

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The world can be a challenging and difficult place in which to live. We are often surrounded by that which would drag us down. As you and I go to the holy houses of God, as we remember the covenants we make within, we will be more able to bear every trial and to overcome each temptation. In this sacred sanctuary we will find peace; we will be renewed and fortified.

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The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does poverty.

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What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.

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Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.

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Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.

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Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.

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Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.

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Virtue is insufficient temptation.

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You are out of the way of temptation and out of the way of the tempter - I didn't mean to make you wicked - but I was - and am - and shall be - and I was with you so much that I couldn't help contaminate.

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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

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The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction.

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Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

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