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.
There has always been discouragement, negativism, and temptation in the world because of Lucifer.
Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
Those who operate through the Holy Spirit are more equipped to resist temptation.
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
We must resist the temptation of once again turning America into the traditional bogeyman of the left.
Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.
We need to resist the temptation to create more entitlements and more entitlements, which is one of the reasons we are heading recklessly toward fiscal crisis.
I'd never say no to surgery in the future, because I feel like, as I get older, I'm going to face temptation more.
The body doesn't accept the lack of food, and it suffers from the temptation of food and from other aspects which gnaw at it perpetually. The body fights back sure enough, but at the end of the day, everything returns to the primary consideration - that is, the mind.
Temptation's something you have to deal with even if you're not famous. It's harder when you're famous because it's a lot more in your face, and that makes it a little more difficult to walk away from sometimes.
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature.
Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?
Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.
The most important thing is that we are on the right path, and we will not deviate from it, even in the face of strong temptation to choose temporary gains over long-term benefits.
By the time you're 18, 19, you know yourself, and you shouldn't go against your gut feeling, which is a temptation in the first year of university.
I would dearly love to resist the temptation, if you can call it that, to worry. It's boring, it's anti-social, it's unproductive and it's depressing.
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
'Honey, I'm Good' is a song about temptation, and we wanted to show what is possible if you can beat it.
We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.
I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.
Temptation to behave is terrible.
The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once.
It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it.
The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.
Obedience brings peace in decision making. If we have firmly made up our minds to follow the commandments, we will not have to redecide which path to take when temptation comes our way.
Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.