{"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"C.S. Lewis","tags":["christianity","temptation"],"id":407,"author_id":"C.S.+Lewis"},{"text":"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.","author":"Mae West","tags":["temptation"],"id":1380,"author_id":"Mae+West"},{"text":"Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?","author":"Chuck Palahniuk","tags":["boredom","sin","temptation"],"id":1766,"author_id":"Chuck+Palahniuk"},{"text":"What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?","author":"P.G. Wodehouse","tags":["humor","new-york-city","temptation"],"id":4511,"author_id":"P.G.+Wodehouse"},{"text":"The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon us as sinners. If we could answer it then we would not be sinners. We could make something else responsible...The theological question does not arise about the origin of evil but about the real overcoming of evil on the Cross; it ask for the forgiveness of guilt, for the reconciliation of the fallen world. ","author":"Dietrich Bonhoeffer","tags":["christianity","creation","temptation"],"id":5001,"author_id":"Dietrich+Bonhoeffer"},{"text":"Many Christians give in to various temptations through peer pressure and find themselves surrendering to worldly passions, justifying pleasures the world offers.","author":"Billy Graham","tags":["billy-graham","peer-pressure","temptation"],"id":5088,"author_id":"Billy+Graham"},{"text":"It is a horrible thing that those who oppose Christ oppose themselves and in their opposition to Christ they are bound by Satan and enslaved by his lies and temptations.We may rightly say; 'I once was blind but now I see.' Now as we have been enlightened by the Holy Spirit we should be able to care enough about those who are still bound to pray that God would have the same mercy on them that he has given freely to us.'C R Lord 2017.","author":"C R Lord","tags":["freely-given","god","lies","mercy","once-was-blind","oppose-christ","satan","temptation"],"id":5767,"author_id":"C+R+Lord"},{"text":"Don’t savor temptations; don’t dwell on them or toy with them or replay them over and over in your mind. The more you think about a particular temptation, the more enticing it becomes.","author":"Billy Graham","tags":["billy-graham","temptation"],"id":7069,"author_id":"Billy+Graham"},{"text":"The temptation to spend money increases as a person’s opportunities increase.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["increases","opportunities","spend","temptation"],"id":8180,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Although I love elegant parties, dancing and dining and spending the night with a sweet woman in my arms, my life belongs to literature.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["beauty","body-vs-mind","choices","dancing","life-choices","life-decisions-choices","literature","love","night","parties","roman-payne","temptation","wanderess","woman","women"],"id":8976,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":244,"pages":25,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}