Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

No one is above temptation. No one is above life in general.

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.

Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.

Everybody has a sinful nature pulling them at every turn.

But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.

I'm no angel.

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

Bad's the best of us.

Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

Human nature is weak.

Gollum has a weak personality and isn't able to cope with the power of the ring.

If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.

… vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

None of us have pure thoughts; we all live in glass houses.

Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.

I struggle just like everybody else struggles. It's always a struggle in life to overcome temptation. I just try and get through it. No one is perfect.

About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.