Pastoral Resources

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

Temptation to behave is terrible.

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.