Temptation

Famous quotes containing the word temptation:

“The last temptation is the greatest treason:
To do the right deed for the wrong reason.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

“Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one.... The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.”
—Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)

“Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)