Gordon B. Hinckley 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.

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.

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

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

Were you to ask what are the means of overcoming temptations, I would answer: The first means is prayer; the second is prayer; the third is prayer; and you should you ask me a thousand times, I would repeat the same.

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

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

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

If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

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.

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

When Satan knocks, I just send Christ to the door.

The Tempter masters the lazy and irresolute man who dwells on the attractive side of things, ungoverned in his senses, and unrestrained in his food, like the wind overcomes a rotten tree. But the Tempter cannot master a man who dwells on the distasteful side of things, self-controlled in his senses, moderate in eating, resolute and full of faith, like the wind cannot move a mountain crag.

I find it most true that the greatest temptation outside of hell is to live without temptations; if water stands, it rots; faith is the better for the sharp winter storm in its face and grace withers without adversity. The devil is but God's master fencer to teach us to handle our weapons.

If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. Let this be one aspect of our daily intercession: "God, preserve my soul, and keep my heart and all its ways so that I will not be entangled." When this is true in our lives, a passing temptation will not overcome us. We will remain free while others lie in bondage.

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

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

...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.

Learn to be difficult when it counts

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

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

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

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.

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