Abbi Glines 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.

Every time I say 'no' to a small temptation, I strengthen my will to say 'no' to a greater one.

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

The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did.

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

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.

Temptation to behave is terrible.

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

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

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

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

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

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

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 people who need to overcome temptation to the highest degree have the hardest time doing it.

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

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.