Brigham Young Quotes

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

Temptation's something you have to deal with even if you're not famous. It's harder when you're famous because it's a lot more in your face, and that makes it a little more difficult to walk away from sometimes.

We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

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

A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death.

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

No one is so good that he is immune from temptation. We will never be entirely free from it. . . . There is no order so holy, no place so secret where there will be no temptation.

'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

Our great Pattern hath showed us what our deportment ought to be in all suggestions and temptations. When the devil showed Him "all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them," to tempt Him withal, He did not stand and look upon them, viewing their glory, and pondering their empire.... but instantly, without stay, He cries, "Get thee hence, Satan." Meet thy temptation in its entrance with thoughts of faith concerning Christ on the cross; this will make it sink before thee. Entertain no parley, no dispute with it, if thou wouldst not enter into it.

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

Let no man pretend to fear sin that does not fear temptation also! These two are too closely united to be separated. He does not truly hate the fruit who delights in the root.

Be killing sin or it will be killing you.

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.

Many of us suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer.

There is no halfway or lackadaisical way to fight lust. If you're not fighting your sin, you're befriending your sin.

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

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

One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

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.