Khalil Gibran Quotes

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

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

We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.

The great of heart is a gift of god. He who obeys his belly, obeys the enemy

Temptations are as thick as the leaves of the forest, and no one can be out of the reach of temptation unless he is dead. The great thing is to make people intelligent enough and strong enough, not to keep away from temptation, but to resist it.

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.

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

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.

Believe it or not, when you fast in the Spirit, God makes you more equipped to deal with hunger, irritability, and temptation.

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.

Asceticism doesn't lie in ascetic robes or in walking staff nor in the ashes. Asceticism doesn't lie in the earring nor in the shaven head nor blowing a conch. Asceticism lies in remaining pure amidst impurities.

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.

Let me tell you about weakness! Killing the strong to prove your strength is foolish weakness. Killing fools is easy weakness. Killing the weak is evil weakness. Accomplishing your ends without killing, mastering your mind when you want to kill--that is strength!

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

Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.

Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means—the only complete realist.

Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

A man's reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man's character. In these reactions are revealed the man's power to govern or his forced servility to yield.

I love the soul that dares tread the temptations of his years beneath his youthful feet.

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

We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.

Jesus resisted the temptation of outrage and the quick fix of condemnation. He spent most of his time preparing wineskins before pouring new wine into them. Our tendency is to start pouring the wine into skins that will only burst.