DeForest Kelley Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

You know what, life is full of temptations.

Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim - not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good.

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.

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

The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.

Everyone deals with temptation. It's just there.

There was a lot of temptation to do lots of bad things in my neighborhood.

If we entertain temptations, soon they begin entertaining us!

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.

Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and their ways nor pity and prayer for their deliverance.

My temptations have been my Masters of Divinity.

A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.

The devil on my right shoulder must have brutally strangled the angel on my left.

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

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

Everyone has a conflict inside of them - the conflict between what you should do and what you want to do.

I believe there's things all around us that make you do good things and some that make you do bad things.

Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.