God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please – you can never have both. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being human, we can only receive infinite truth in finite doses
~Norman Grubb

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

To see what is in front of one’s nose requires a constant struggle.
~ George Orwell

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
~William James

Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.
~Rev. Denny Brake

We are often unprepared for Truth, which is why Truth is revealed to us progressively.
~Chip Brogden

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
~Jim Davis

Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels’ bread when found.
~W. MacNeile Dixon

The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
~Stephen Hawking

The truth is “hate speech” only to those who have something to hide.
~Michael Rivero

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
~Thomas Jefferson

The search for truth implies a duty. One must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.
~Albert Einstein

Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas.
~Shoseki

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
~Thoreau

It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. ~Oscar Wilde

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
~Martin Luther

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
~Leo Tolstoy

To some the truth is an insult, to others life from the dead.
~Gary Amirault

My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.
~Antonio Porchia

“Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past!”
~Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.”
~ John Muir

“The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Wonder is the basis of worship”
~ Thomas Carlyle

“So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and painfully as to find someone to worship”
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator”
~ Mahatma Gandhi

“The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.”
~ P. D. Ouspensky

“Let’s face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?”
~ Bill Maher

“The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.”
~Richard Francis Burton

“Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don’t worship it. Feed it.
~ Aubrey Eben

“Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?”
~ Charles de Lint

“An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.”
~Sarah Ban Breathnach

“I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that he is even infinitely above it.
~ Benjamin Franklin

” The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.”
~Dorothy Thompson

“It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.”
~ Arthur C. Clarke

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

“Speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.”
~Dr. Laurence J. Peter

“If you kick a stone in anger, you’ll hurt your own foot.”
~Korean Proverb

“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.”
~Confucius

“Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.”
~Horace Walpole

“When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.”
~Epictetus

“If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.”
~Epictetus

“Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
~Malachy McCourt

“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”
~Maya Angelou

“Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.”
~ Gautama Buddha

“Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.”
~James Fallows

“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”
~Seneca

“There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.”
~ Plato

“One should not lose one’s temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.”
~William Butler Yeats

“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.”
~Albert Einstein

“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

No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
~Edmund Burke

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is every wasted.
~ Aesop

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
~ Calvin Coolidge

He is truly great who hath a great charity.
~Thomas a Kempis

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
~Helen Keller

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
~ Mark Twain

In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, But all mankind’s concern is charity.
~ Alexander Pope

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaulteth not itself, is not puffed up.
~Bible

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
~ Jack London

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation. ~William Hutton

He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own..
~Confucius

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
~Zoroaster

True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense
~Emanuel Swedenborg

Charity begins at home, but should not end there
~Proverb

The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms
~Bertrand Russell