Temptation Quotes

Here are some temptation quotes.

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.
~ Bible

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
~Anonymous

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw

I can resist everything except temptation.
~Oscar Wilde

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
~T. S. Eliot

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
~Benjamin Franklin

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
~James Branch Cabell

We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.
~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
~ Robert Orben

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
~W N Taylor

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
~Thomas Jefferson

Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
~Lane Olinghouse

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
~Oscar Wilde

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values – and witnesses. ~Franklin P. Jones

If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength.
~François, duc de La Rochefoucauld
Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
~Margaret Oliphant

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
~Mark Twain

Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak.
~Bible, Matthew 26:41

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
~Eduardo Galeano

Temptation is a woman’s weapon and man’s excuse.
~H. L. Mencken

Providence Quotes

Here are some christian Prodivence Quotes and sayings.

“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.”
~ Abraham Lincoln

“Chance is a nickname for Providence. [Fr., Le hasard est un sobriquet de la Providence.”
~William Camden

“Divine Providence tempers his blessings to secure their better effect. He keeps our joys and our fears on an even balance, that we may neither presume nor despair. By such compositions God is pleased to make both our crosses more tolerable and our enjoyments more wholesome and safe.”
~ William Wogan

“Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions.”
~Charles Caleb Colton

“Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion’d strength.”
~John Milton

“The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.”
~ Bible

“The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.”
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Providence is always on the side of the last reserve”
~ Napoleon Bonaparte

O God, thy arm was here!
And not to use, but to thy arm alone,
Ascribe we all!
~William Shakespeare,

“Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.”
~ Henry Ward Beecher

“My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers.”
~ Victor Hugo

“There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.”
~ William Shakespeare

“He that doth the ravens feed. Yea, providently caters for the sparrow. Be comfort to my age!”
~ William Shakespeare

“If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.”
~Sir William Browne

“Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.”
~Alexander Pope

“It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.”
~ Seneca

“All that I know of tomorrow is that Providence will rise before the sun.”
~Jean Baptiste Lacordaire

“He that will watch Providence shall never want a Providence to watch.”
~ Rev. John Flavel

“How just is Providence in all its works, How swift to overtake us in our crimes!”
~ George Lansdowne

“I have dreamt since my youth that divine providence would grant me the privilege of dying in harness”
~Rober Mayer

Temptation Quotes

But for temptation, we would not be here reading about temptation today.

This is my favorite temptation quote from the bible:
“Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.”

“We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.”
~Eduardo Galeano

“I have a simple principle for the conduct of life – never to resist an adequate temptation.”
~ Max Lerner

“By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.”
~ Oscar Wilde Temptation Quotes

“We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.”
~Eduardo Galeano

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.”
~Oscar Wilde

“The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.”
~T.S. Eliot

“Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it”
~W. Somerset Maugham

“Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.”
~Joey Adams

“I deal with temptation by yielding to it”
~Mark Twain 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.”
~William Butler Yeats

“Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.”
~Frederick William Faber

“Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.”
~Oscar Wilde

“Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.”
~ W. M. Taylor

“Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.”
~ William Shakespeare Temptation Quotes

“I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it”
~ Mae West Temptation Quotes

Atonement quotes

Atonement quotes and sayings for christians.

“Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.”
~ W. H. Auden

“What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?”
~Aeschylus

“To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations.”
~Alfred Adler

“Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.”
~Otto Weininger

“Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”
~Bible

“And moreover, I say unto you, that salvation doth not come by the law alone; and were it not for the atonement, which God himself shall make for the sins and iniquities of his people, that they must unavoidably perish, notwithstanding the law of Moses.”

“It is an outstanding merit of the substitutionary view, then, that it does not gloss over the past. It recognizes it for the serious and significant thing that it is. But it affirms that Christ has taken care of our past as He has taken care of every aspect of our need. He has paid the penalty. He has wiped out the sin.”
~Leon Morris

“And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean.”
~From the Bible

“And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them: / And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.”
~ From the Bible

Theology Quotes and Sayings

Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

It is a common error to suppose that the Higher Life is a matter of reading, and the adoption of theological or metaphysical hypotheses, and that Spiritual Principles can be apprehended by this method.
~James Allen

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
~Jeremy Taylor

“Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents the revolt if an infinite being against the existence of an absolute infinity, against God.”
~Mikhail A. Bakunine

To study theology means not so much to examine exhaustively the work of earlier students of theology as to become their fellow student.
~K. Barth

“Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances; it is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.”
~Voltaire

Theology itself is the science of God and his works and systematic theology is the systematizing of the findings of that science.
~Henry C. Thiessen

The essential purpose of theology is to study and bring into a fitting, consistent expression the Christian faith.
~Thomas C. Oden,

At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.
~John Polkinghorne

The word Theology means literally a discourse concerning God, but in analogy with other words, as geology, chronology and biology, it means the science which treats of God.
~James P. Boyce

Christian doctrine is the interpretation of the witness of Holy Scripture, coming from the witness of the believing Community.
~Otto Weber

Theology in the premodern period was always done on the assumption that the Bible was the written Word of God ~C. Pinnock

In theology the investigator has to do with God, Man, and the God-man
~William G. T. Shedd

Quotes on Sanctity

Quotes and sayings on Sanctity and Sanctity of life.

If anyone is unable to bring up children because of poverty, it is better to abstain from marriage than to mar the work of God with wicked hands.
~Lactantius

We must pray a great deal and beg God not to chastise us and save us in time and for eternity.
~ Sr. Lucia

As a mama and a grandma, I appreciate, understand and absolutely believe in the sanctity of life. But I recognize that there are those tough situations where heartbreaking decisions have to be made.
~ Carole Keeton Strayhorn

Are you to dissolve the conception by aid of drugs? I believe it is no more lawful to hurt a child in process of birth than to hurt one who is already born.
~Tertullian

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people…No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.
~ St. Thomas Becket

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
~Emma Goldman

There is a ‘’sanctity” involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
~ James Arthur Baldwin

Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life.
~John Boehner

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.
~ George Sarton

You shall not kill the child by obtaining an abortion. Nor, again, shall you destroy him after he is born.
~Barnabas

The sanctity of human life is the most dangerous sophistry ever propagated by philosophy and it is all too well rooted. Because if it means anything it means the in-sanctity of species which are not human.
~ John Aspinall

You shall not murder a child by abortion nor kill one who has been born.
~Didache