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When you begin to pursue your promised land, you get a lot of prohibitions and temptations ~ Sunday Adelaja
Overcoming Temptation quotes by Sunday Adelaja
Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome my fear. ~ Shirin Ebadi
Overcoming Temptation quotes by Shirin Ebadi
I must confess I will miss your ... proximity when jumping together.'
'Well,' she said, answering his smile with one of her own.
'There's always sickle training in the ballroom.'
'That there is. ~ Michelle Zink
Overcoming Temptation quotes by Michelle Zink
I will not die an unlived life ... I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me ... I choose to risk my significance. ~ Dawna Markova
Overcoming Temptation quotes by Dawna Markova
All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage. ~ William Bradford
Overcoming Temptation quotes by William Bradford
His enticing hazel greens had me begging for him. I couldn't stand it anymore-what a temptation! I wanted to taste every bit of him. ~ Elena Carpenter
Overcoming Temptation quotes by Elena Carpenter
When one's function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have spoken, nothing has been said. ~ Jacques Maritain
Overcoming Temptation quotes by Jacques Maritain
Where faith is not continually kept in motion and exercised, it weakens and decreases, so that it must indeed vanish; and yet we do not see nor feel this weakness ourselves, except in times of need and temptation, when unbelief rages too strongly; and yet for that very reason faith must have temptations in which it may battle and grow. ~ Martin Luther
Overcoming Temptation quotes by Martin Luther
Hope is a great assurance. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Overcoming Temptation quotes by Lailah Gifty Akita
When a friend needs consoling, do not give in to the temptation of telling stories similar to theirs of disaster or bereavement. It is something people often do to show empathy but nothing is more tiresome than other people's problems when you want to focus on your own. Listening is by far the best form of consolation. ~ Giles Andreae
Overcoming Temptation quotes by Giles Andreae
When we look squarely at injustice and get involved, we actually feel less pain, not more, because we overcome the gnawing guilt and despair that festers under our numbness. We clean the wound - our own and others' - and it can finally heal. ~ Desmond Tutu
Overcoming Temptation quotes by Desmond Tutu
I see the confusion of politics and religion as one of the greatest barriers to grace. C. S. Lewis once said that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist. Those ~ Philip Yancey
Overcoming Temptation quotes by Philip Yancey
My beloved church misunderstood me. It preached the corruptibility of humanity when I came to demonstrate its potential for incorruptibility. It propounded the sinfulness of humanity when I suffered to reveal your godliness and to overcome your guilt by demonstrating that you can totally rise above the death of the body. ~ Barbara Marx Hubbard
Overcoming Temptation quotes by Barbara Marx Hubbard
The temptation to use mathematics is irresistible for economists. It appears to convey the appropriate air of scientific authority and precision to economists' musings. ~ Paul Ormerod
Overcoming Temptation quotes by Paul Ormerod
The more you love laughter the more you must bear with boredom.
The more you love excitement the more you must bear with monotomy.
The more you love company the more you must bear with loneliness.
The more you love loyalty the more you must bear with distrust.
The more you love pleasure the more you must bear with pain.
The more you love silence the more you must bear with speech.
The more you love solitude the more you must bear with noise.
The more you love knowledge the more you must bear with curiosity.
The more you love truth the more you must bear with conscience.
The more you love vice the more you must bear with guilt.
The more you love virtue the more you must bear with temptation.
The more you love morality the more you must bear with shame.
The more you love freedom the more you must bear with responsibility.
The more you love power the more you must bear with restraint.
The more you love wisdom the more you must bear with learning.
The more you love wealth the more you must bear with risk.
The more you love fame the more you must bear with apathy.
The more you love achievement the more you must bear with fear.
The more you love success the more you must bear with challenges. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Overcoming Temptation quotes by Matshona Dhliwayo
Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their seductive quality often comes from the way they are part of the much larger temptation to self-rejection. When we have come to believe in the voices that call us worthless and unlovable, then success, popularity, and power are easily perceived as attractive solutions. The real trap, however, is self-rejection. As soon as someone accuses me or criticizes me, as soon as I am rejected, left alone, or abandoned, I find myself thinking, "Well, that proves once again that I am a nobody." ... [My dark side says,] I am no good ... I deserve to be pushed aside, forgotten, rejected, and abandoned. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved." Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence. ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
Overcoming Temptation quotes by Henri J.M. Nouwen
And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation's path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright. ~ Robert Burns
Overcoming Temptation quotes by Robert Burns
One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers. ~ James Russell Lowell
Overcoming Temptation quotes by James Russell Lowell
Even after all our frailties and failures, Christ Jesus can hardly wait to acknowledge us before the very angels of God. If He is that unashamed of us in all our imperfections, how can we be ashamed of Him, our Redeemer and Deliverer? So don't duck your head in shame under the coffee table. At one time or another, all of us have faced the temptation to shrink away from openly acknowledging Christ. But I've learned one of the best ways to get over our attacks of shame: do it over and over until it loses its intimidation. The more we practice, the easier it gets! ~ Beth Moore
Overcoming Temptation quotes by Beth Moore
You have a wild-eyed look, my Beth. What do you
see?"
"Don't look at me," she cried, now utterly unhinged.
"Don't look into my eyes when you can see everything in them, and I am not able to look into yours and see anything! ~ Charlotte Featherstone
Overcoming Temptation quotes by Charlotte Featherstone
The problem is to overcome the ingrained disbelief in the power of winning nature by love, in the gentle (ju) way (do) of turning with the skid, of controlling ourselves by cooperating with ourselves. ~ Alan Watts
Overcoming Temptation quotes by Alan Watts
You have within you many strong and cruel enemies to overcome. You must know that there are still a thousand ties which you must break. No one can tell you what they are; only you can tell by looking at yourself and into your heart. ~ Johannes Tauler
Overcoming Temptation quotes by Johannes Tauler
The lesson of history, then, is that even as institutions and policy makers improve, there will always be a temptation to stretch the limits. Just as an individual can go bankrupt no matter how rich she starts out, a financial system can collapse under the pressure of greed, politics, and profits no matter how well regulated it seems to be. ~ Carmen M. Reinhart
Overcoming Temptation quotes by Carmen M. Reinhart
As any sin passes through its stages from temptation, to toleration, to approval, its name is first euphemized, then avoided, then forgotten. A colleague tells me that some of his fellow legal scholars call child molestation "intergenerational intimacy": that's euphemism. A good-hearted editor tried to talk me out of using the term "sodomy": that's avoidance. My students don't know the word "fornication" at all: that's forgetfulness. ~ J. Budziszewski
Overcoming Temptation quotes by J. Budziszewski
The best way to keep yourself from doing something grossly self-destructive and stupid is to avoid the temptation to do it. For example, it is far easier to fend off inappropriate amorous desires if one runs screaming from the room every time a pretty girl comes in. ~ Jim Butcher
Overcoming Temptation quotes by Jim Butcher
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. ~ Francis Of Assisi
Overcoming Temptation quotes by Francis Of Assisi
Every society says its outsiders are the problem. But the outsiders are not the problem; the urge to create outsiders is the problem. Overcoming that urge is our greatest challenge and our greatest promise. It will take courage and insight, because the people we push to the margins are the ones who trigger in us the feelings we're afraid of. ~ Melinda Gates
Overcoming Temptation quotes by Melinda Gates
And she gave herself up to him body and soul, responding to his disarming affection, the bounty of his indefatigable dick, and as always to his arresting strength and beauty. He was her temptation and deliverance. He was her life. ~ C.C. Gibbs
Overcoming Temptation quotes by C.C. Gibbs
She was temptation wrapped in seduction, a Southern beauty with a viper's tongue, a
rapier wit and a bone-deep grit that rivaled his own. Yes, she'd basically blown his mind with her
brilliant concept of time ~ Gena Showalter
Overcoming Temptation quotes by Gena Showalter
I am confident that we can overcome this crisis, provided that we remain united in our effort to address our debt and competitiveness problems. And I think that the Greek people are united; it's important also that the political forces are united in line with the will of the Greek people. ~ Lucas Papademos
Overcoming Temptation quotes by Lucas Papademos
By bravely enduring our trials, we learn humility, compassion for others, and a great reliance on God. We also learn that our happiness and progress depend much less upon what challenges life may bring and infinitely more on how we face and overcome those challenges. ~ Lloyd D. Newell
Overcoming Temptation quotes by Lloyd D. Newell
Most humans feel the transcendent temptation, the emotional drive to festoon the universe with large-scale meaning. ~ Paul Kurtz
Overcoming Temptation quotes by Paul Kurtz
When business is not all that it should be there is a temptation to sit back and say, Well, what's the use! We've done everything possible to stir up a little business and there is nothing doing so what's the use of trying! There is always a way. There was a way in and there is a way out. And success comes to the man who grits his teeth, squares his jaw, and says, There is a way for me and, by jingo, I'll find it. The stagnator gathers green scum, finally dries up and leaves an unsightly hollow. ~ Cliff Sloan
Overcoming Temptation quotes by Cliff Sloan
Afflictions, like bills and pikes, make a terrible show when they cannot reach us; but the temptations of prosperity, like unseen bullets, wound and kill us before they are discerned. ~ George Downame
Overcoming Temptation quotes by George Downame
Sadeq, being human, has fantasies by the dozen, but he doesn't dare permit himself to succumb to temptation. I'm not dead, he reasons; therefore, how can I be in Paradise? Therefore, this must be a false paradise, a temptation sent to lead me astray. Probably. Unless I am dead, because Allah, peace be unto him, considers a human soul separated from its body to be dead. But if that's so, isn't uploading a sin? In which case, this can't be Paradise because I am a sinner. Besides which, this whole setup is so puerile! ~ Charles Stross
Overcoming Temptation quotes by Charles Stross
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