Neal A. Maxwell Quotes

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

Many of us suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer.

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

I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.

For they who think they make an end of temptation by yeilding to it, only set themselves on fire the more.

There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.

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

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

I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

No one is so good that he is immune from temptation. We will never be entirely free from it. . . . There is no order so holy, no place so secret where there will be no temptation.

The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.

Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin.

My temptations have been my Masters of Divinity.

Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.

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

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.

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.

The people who need to overcome temptation to the highest degree have the hardest time doing it.

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

I had never realized a woman could have to struggle to keep her hands off a man, but here I was, digging my nails into my palms, staring at the inside of my eyelids as though I could maybe see through them if I peered hard enough.

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

"Akrasia" [weakness of will] in rational beings is as common as wine in France.

The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low.

The temptation is not here, where you are reading about it or praying about it. It is down in your shop, among bales and boxes, ten-penny nails, and sand-paper.

It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.