Frank Moore Colby Quotes

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

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.

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

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

People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.

Just being aware of what you are about to do greatly diminishes the tendency to do what you don't want to. You will pull your hand back from that pizza slice, tell the waitress that you are passing on dessert, put on your gym shoes instead of going under the comforter, and take several deep breaths instead of screaming at your daughter.

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.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

When I wasn't playing, the most important thing was to stay patient.

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.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

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

The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.

The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire.

Strength comes from waiting.

Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We’ve got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially on the path we’ve chosen.

Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency.

'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.

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