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“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...”
“I can resist everything except temptation.”
“Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is we'll find it.”
“Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.”
“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.”
“There are several good protections against temptation but the surest is cowardice.”
“Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.”
“Things forbidden have a secret charm.”
“After listening to thousands of pleas for pardon to offenders I can hardly recall a case where I did not feel that I might have fallen as my fellow man had done if I had been subjected to the sam...”
“I have a simple principle for the conduct of life - never to resist an adequate temptation.”
“If the world were merely seductive that would be easy. If it were merely challenging that would be no problem. But I rise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a...”
“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.”
“Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life.”
“Honest bread is very well - it's the butter that makes the temptation.”
“Get thee behind me Satan.”
“Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.”
“I can resist anything except temptation.”
“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
