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Esther Hicks Author, Speaker
Temptation

"If there is something that you have to do, resist the temptation to do it under duress. Ask yourself, "What's the worst thing that would happen if I didn't do this?" And if you can get away with not doing it at all, don't do it. And then imagine what would it feel like to have this done. Spend a day or two, if you can, just 15 minutes here, 5 minutes here, 2 minutes here, here and here, imagining it completed in a way that pleases you! And then, the next time you decide that you're going to take action about it, the action is going to be a whole lot easier."

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Selwyn Hughes Author
Temptation

"We must learn to do more with temptation than just bear it - we must learn to use it. The secret of using temptation, and turning it to our advantage, is one of life's greatest secrets. Once we have learned it we are unbeatable and unbreakable."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
Temptation

"After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you must not only, if possible, remove the temptation, you must also go back and repent the sin itself. In each case an 'undoing' is required."

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Billy Graham Evangelist, Author
Temptation

"There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan's first temptation of Adam and Eve: "Ye shall be as gods." (Gen. 3:5)"

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Teresa of Avila Saint, Mystic, Writer
Temptation

"His Majesty [the Lord] . . . rewards great services with trials, and there can be no better reward, for out of trials springs love for God."

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Frank Herbert Science Fiction Writer
Temptation

"And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
Temptation

"Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers."

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Paulo Coelho Writer
Temptation

"If we resist the temptation to allow other people to define who we are, then we will gradually be able to let the sun inside our own soul shine forth."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Temptation

"The fortitude which has encountered no dangers, that prudence which has surmounted no difficulties, that integrity which has been attacked by no temptation, can at best be considered but as gold not yet brought to the test, of which therefore the true value cannot be assigned."

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Soren Kierkegaard Philosopher, Theologian
Temptation

"Where unclarity resides, there is temptation, and there it proves only too easily the stronger. Wherever there is ambiguity, wherever there is wavering, there is disobedience down at the bottom."

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