William Penn Quotes

One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.

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

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

Tomorrow's character is made out of today's thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin does not.

Every temptation that is resisted, every evil thought that is curbed, every desire that is subdued, every bitter word that is withheld, every noble aspiration that is encouraged, every sublime thought that is cultivated, adds to the development of will-force, good character, and attainment of eternal bliss and immortality.

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

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.

'Honey, I'm Good' is a song about temptation, and we wanted to show what is possible if you can beat it.

Everyone deals with temptation. It's just there.

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.

No temptation, no pressure, no enticing can overcome us unless we allow such. If we make the wrong choice, we have no one to blame but ourselves.

Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials.

Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.

You tempt me. I can’t be tempted. I’m not made to be tempted.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

The best way to resist temptation is to avoid it. Prevention is far, far better than repentance.

If we didn't have to stand against temptation, we'd never know our own spiritual strength.

There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be driven out of the heart like the moneychangers from the temple. Maybe they can, if you patrol your weak points day and night, don't look, don't smell, don't dream.

Power isn't about doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.

He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.

There is no point in praying for victory over temptation if we are not willing to make a commitment to say no to it.