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"They also held that the way to salvation was to give way to lust and temptation in all things. And no greater percentage of them turned up here than of any other religion. Amusing, isn't it?"
"I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous."
"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."
"It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money."
"As ministers our greatest temptation is toward too many words. They weaken our faith and make us lukewarm. But silence is a sacred discipline, a guard of the Holy Spirit."
"If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong."
"The noble temptation to see too much in everything."
"It seems as if the more youthful and impressible streams can hardly resist the numerous invitations and temptations to leave theirnative beds and run down their neighbors' channels."
"Put temptation on the unenjoyment line."
"Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead."
"The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue."
"Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture."
"Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius."
"If we didn't have to stand against temptation, we'd never know our own spiritual strength."
"My temptations have been my Masters of Divinity."
"Our office...subjects us to great burdens and labors, dangers and temptations, with little reward or gratitude from the world. But Christ himself will be our reward if we labor faithfully."
"One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense."
