Quotes on Temptation

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Ask the Lord for Constant Strength

"If you are faced with temptation and choose the temptation, your desire and willingness to do evil will increase. We have to start by doing something good when we don't want to do it. Then our desire and ability to do good will increase. Obedience breeds desire."

-Harold C. Brown, while President of Cottonwood Stake-

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"It should be part of our daily prayers to ask the Lord for constant strength to resist temptation, especially temptations that involve the law of chastity."

-President Ezra Taft Benson-

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"Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollily; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas."

-Benjamin Franklin-

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"I pray every day to overcome worldly temptations and my insecure feelings."

--Sister Bok Ja Moon Kim--

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"In so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury; and if he is overcome, you share his guilt."

-Samuel Johnson-

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