Margaret Deland Quotes

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

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

Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations.

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

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

Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.

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.

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

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

Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.

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

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out.

It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

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.

What, pray, does it profit a man to teach others, and to be prating always about virtue, in high-sounding words, if he fails to give heed to his own instructions?