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

An ant may well destroy a whole dam.

There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same

A horse cannot gain weight if not fed with extra fodder during the night; a man cannot become wealthy without earnings apart from his regular salaries.

An inch of time is an inch of gold but you can’t buy that inch of time with an inch of gold.

The palest ink is better than the sharpest memory

Once on a tiger’s back, it is hard to alight.

When the heart is at ease, the body is healthy

You can’t expect both ends of a sugar cane are as sweet.

On reason: A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

To persecute the unfortunate is like throwing stones on one fallen into a well

On Cause and effect: If the wind comes from an empty cave, it’s not without a reason.

On reputations: A person needs a face; a tree needs bark.

See the wind, turn the rudder.

If you’re poor, change and you’ll succeed.

Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.

Not only can water float a boat, it can sink it also.

The absence of proof is not the proof of absence.

The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher

Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.

Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.

Of all the stratagems, to know when to quit is the best.

“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

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

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
~ Helen Adams Keller

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss – a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
~Arthur Helps

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
~Ernest Holmes

Not till I was shut up to prayer and to the study of God’s word by the loss of earthly joys–sickness destroying the flavor of them all–did I begin to penetrate the mystery that is learned under the cross. And wondrous as it is, how simple is that mystery! To love Christ, and to know that I love Him–this is all.
~ Mrs. Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.
~William Shakespeare

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.
~Princess Diana

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
~Thomas Carlyle

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
~Aeschylus

True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
~Saint Ignatius

Happiness is not a reward – it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment – it is a result.
~Robert Green Ingersoll

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
~W. Somerset Maugham

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you’re in front of someone who’s suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.
~Paul Farmer

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
~William Butler Yeats

In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ.
~Kenneth Scott Latourette

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
~Marcel Proust

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
~Michel de Montaigne

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Mother Teresa

The two hot issues are the gay issue and the abortion issue. These are the two defining issues in the evangelical community these days. I’m sure that these hot buttons will be pushed, time and time again.
Tony Campolo

We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and children have slipped into poverty.
Robert Casey

The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected; and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb.
Robert Casey

That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.
Jesse Helms

Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not… with regard to abortion and euthanasia.
Pope Benedict XVI

In short, I’m not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.
Tony Campolo

I think abortion is murder.
Victoria Jackson

I could never, ever have an abortion.
Brooke Shields

For almost twenty years, abortion policy in America has been controlled by the courts.
Robert Casey

Abortion raises moral and spiritual questions over which honorable persons can disagree sincerely and profoundly. But those disagreements did not then and do not now relieve us of our duty to apply the Constitution faithfully.
Harry Blackmun

Abortion is the ultimate violence.
Robert Casey

A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust.
Robert Casey

I have taken the lives of innocent babies, and I have ripped them from their mother’s wombs with a powerful suction machine
McArthur Hill, M.D.

“The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.”
~James Bryce

“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.”
~Abraham Lincoln

“I didn’t write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.”
~Larry Hagman

“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche

“A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
~Garrison Keillor

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way”
~Caroline Gordon

“Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.”
~Samuel Johnson

“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul.”
~Aldous Huxley

“Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.”
~ George William Curtis

“A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.”
~P. L. Travers

“‘Tis the good reader that makes the good book.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.’
~ Winston Churchill

“Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.”
~Henry David Thoreau

“Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who you are” is true enough, but I’d know you better if you told me what you reread. ”
~François Mauriac

“Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. ”
~P.J. O’Rourke

“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ”
~Chinese Proverb

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life.”
~Helen Exley

A stem cell is essentially a blank cell capable of becoming another, more differentiated cell-type in the body, such as a skin cell, a muscle cell or a nerve cell.
~Virginia Foxx

While we must devote enormous energy to conquering disease, it is equally important that we pay attention to the moral concerns raised by the new frontier of human embryo stem cell research. Even the most noble ends do not justify any means.
~George W Bush

The best that can be said about embryonic stem cell research is that it is scientific exploration into the potential benefits of killing human beings.
~Tom Delay

Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.
~Jay Leno

I’m a judge. It seemed to me that it was critical to try to take action to stem the criticism and help people understand that in the constitutional framework, it’s terribly important not to have a system of retaliation against decisions people don’t like.
~Sandra Day O’Connor

“The supporters of embryo-destructive research want to cross a great moral divide. They are seeking not only to destroy human life made in God’s image but also to manufacture life made in man’s image. Tragically, we are losing this fight, however, because too few people understand the issues.”
~Chuck Colson

I am pro-life. I believe human life begins at conception. I also believe that embryonic stem cell research should be encouraged and supported.
~ Bill Frist

“The Harvard Stem Cell Institute is an important effort to help unlock one of the fundamental mysteries of life, and could lead to important new medical treatments.”
~ Lawrence H. Summers, President of Harvard University

“While I respect that this is a difference in theology [regarding the moral status of a human child], and while I understand the passion and the conviction of those for whom the blastocyst is a person from the moment of fertilization, I do not believe this, and it is [a] matter of faith for me as well. My passion and my conviction are toward the suffering of the one I see in need, ill or wounded.”
~Laurie Zoloth

Mankind is a great, an immense family… This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.
~ Pope John XXIII

There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.”
~ Erma Bombeck

“Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.”
~Washington Irving

A Christmas candle is a lovely thing;
It makes no noise at all,
But softly gives itself away;
While quite unselfish, it grows small.
~Eva K. Logue

I have always thought of Christmas as a good time; a kind, forgiving, generous, pleasant time; a time when men and women seem to open their hearts freely, and so I say, God bless Christmas!

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? ~G.K. Chesterton
~Charles Dickens

I like this Christmas quotes
Remember, if Christmas isn’t found in your heart, you won’t find it under a tree.
~ Charlotte Carpenter.

Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.
~ Phillips Brooks

The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants.
~John Andrew Holmes

The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung.
~Phillips Brooks

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year.
~Charles Dickens

Santa is very jolly because he knows where all the bad girls live. ~Dennis Miller

Do give books – religious or otherwise – for Christmas. They’re never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
~ Lenore Hershey
(Also it is the only gift you can open again and again)

“My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?”
~Bob Hope

People can’t concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December. ~Ogden Nash

Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts.
~ Lenora Mattingly Weber

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!
~Charles Dickens

“It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.”

“We took two of the kids up to the flight deck, and that made their day,”

“Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade. ”

“At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.”

“A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.”

“The morning after a death, we learned an avalanche of goodies about the renowned, some of which persuaded the reader that he should have cultivated the deceased in life.”

“Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.”

“Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.”