Temptation Knocks Quotes & Sayings

Temptation leans on the doorbell, but opportunity knocks only once. — Malorie Blackman

Most science fiction is about white men who are 25 to 30, who are very smart, who face a physical problem and solve it. — Joe Haldeman

You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality — Gilles Deleuze

You meet people, you part ways, sometimes you cross paths again. Mostly, you don't. — Gayle Forman

We can't flee from temptation in our own strength - but God will give us the strength we need, if we'll only seek it. A friend of mine says, When the devil knocks, I just send Jesus to the door! — Billy Graham

All things are delicately interconnected. — Jenny Holzer

I want someone who will love me and touch me and understand me and let me take care of them, but beyond that, I don't know. — Jonathan Tropper

I don't know how often opportunity knocks, but temptations to make foul decisions bang on my door all day long. And smelly decisions make for smelly problems later on. A few little decisions, good or bad, can make a big difference in a life. Better to run from those skunks than with them. — Steve Goodier

I do not want a player who is a perfect man and has a fantastic character. That's the kind of guy I want for my daughter as a man. — Jose Mourinho

You will see in this my notion of good works, that I am far from expecting to merit heaven by them. By heaven we understand a state of happiness, infinite in degree, and eternal in duration. I can do nothing to deserve such rewards ... Even the mixed imperfect pleasures we enjoy in this world, are rather from God's goodness than our merit, how much more such happiness of heaven! — Benjamin Franklin

Anyone with any degree of mental toughness ought to be able to exist without the things they like most for a few months at least. — Georgia O'Keeffe

Words such as union, fusion, and symbiosis hint at the ineffable oneness with Jesus that the apostle Paul experienced: "It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me" (Gal. 2:20). No human word is even remotely adequate to convey the mysterious and furious longing of Jesus for you and me to live in His smile and hang on His words. But union comes close, very close; it is a word pregnant with a reality that surpasses understanding, the only reality worth yearning for with love and patience, the only reality before which we should stay very quiet. CEASE STRIVING AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD. (PS. 46:10 NASB) — Brennan Manning

We will not build a society that reflects who we are and that has opportunities for equality or justice if we don't make progress for all participants. — Mitchell Baker