Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
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Surely Shakespeare is wicked, the map a bad example With ships and sun and love tempting them to steal—
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The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things which they had not previously thought attainable, sometimes works a sort of industrial revolution in a country whose resources were previously undeveloped for want of energy and ambition in the people: inducing those who were satisfied with scanty comforts and little work, to work harder for the gratification of their new tastes, and even to save, and accumulate capital, for the still more complete satisfaction of those tastes at a future time.
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I have enough money in the bank now to buy enough beans and rice for twenty-five years. To the end (sometimes longed for). Why not kidnap Suzy and sneak off to the life of a semi-hermit? A tempting, constantly tempting idea. ...... Peace. Simplicity. Order, ceremony and ritual. Voluntary poverty. An end to clutter and this vulgar, stifling, crushing burden of things
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Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II's slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas -- to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation.
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I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.
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It's my own stupid fault, as usual. I was in the possession of class C drugs, which is an offence...P.S. I promise I won't make a record out of this one--even though it's tempting.
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The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
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Mark 10:2:
Some Pharisees came and tested him by asking, 'Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?'
(NIV)
And some Pharisees came up, and, in order to test Him and try to find a weakness in Him, asked, Is it lawful for a man to dismiss and repudiate and divorce his wife?
(AMP)
And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
(KJV)
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The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me,—a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses, and I did not like t...
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Matthew 19:3:
Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, 'Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?'
(NIV)
And Pharisees came to Him and put Him to the test by asking, Is it lawful and right to dismiss and repudiate and divorce one's wife for any and every cause?
(AMP)
The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
(KJV)
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I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.
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The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.
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The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.
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The road to success has many tempting parking places.
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Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
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James 1:13:
When tempted, no one should say, 'God is tempting me.' For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone
(NIV)
Let no one say when he is tempted, I am tempted from God; for God is incapable of being tempted by [what is] evil and He Himself tempts no one.
(AMP)
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
(KJV)
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The best way to overcome temptation is to avoid the tempting situation.
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Few things can be less tempting or dangerous than a Greek woman of the age of thirty.
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Luke 11:16:
Others tested him by asking for a sign from heaven.
(NIV)
While others, to try and test and tempt Him, demanded a sign of Him from heaven.
(AMP)
And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven.
(KJV)
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