Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

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.

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

My temptations have been my Masters of Divinity.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

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

Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.

I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.

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

When temptations march monotonously in regiments, one waits for to pass.

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.

He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair. And if he punishes us mercilessly, it is a sign that He loves us that much more.

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

Better not to give in to it.

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

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

There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.

Temptation always starts in your mind, not in circumstances.

Be killing sin or it will be killing you.