He will agree that, for the sake of others who are trying to resist temptation, an example should be made of Nicholas and of his father.

Those who are exceedingly scrupulous, (which I do not approve, for I am no friend to scruples,) and find their scrupulosity invincible, so that they are quite in the dark, and know not what they shall do,or those who cannot resist temptations, and find they make themselves worse by being in the world, without making it better, may retire.

I said, some young monks might be allowed, to shew that it is not age alone that can retire to pious solitude; but he thought this would only shew that they could not resist temptation.

"The prayers and praises describe the wisdom, power, and goodness of the deity addressed," and when the customary offerings had been made, the worshipper prayed for food, life, health, posterity, wealth, protection, happiness, whatever the object was,generally for outward prosperity rather than for improvement in character, or for forgiveness of sin, peace of mind, or power to resist temptation.

If we resist temptation, our characters are improved.

'It is a vice, and I am not Saint Anthony, to resist temptation.' 'Perhaps,' suggested Fräulein Ottilie timidly, 'if you exercised a little strength of character' 'Exercise?' roared Stromboli, not understanding her, for they spoke a jargon of Italian, German, and English.

Poor weak-headed thing, full of foolish cunning; always doing wrong, and knowing that it is wrong, but quite unable to resist temptation; and then profuse in futile explanations, gesticulations, mouthings of an 'Oh!oh!oh!'

He cares for us in the broad day, urging us to resist temptation.

Resist temptation, everything lies in that.

To resist temptation like Jesus on the mountain....

"Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good," is a sermon.

"She has been taught to resist temptation in whatever guise it may present itself; and if the principles I have endeavoured to implant within her breast had found lodgment there, she would have resisted it.

You did not believe her, master Marten, and you do not believe her now, and you are going to try temptation to the very utmost, and you think you will stand it, and I know you won't, for I remember what my dear lady said, that no one can resist temptation in their own strength.

"I have never been tempted more than I could bearnever shall be temptedand if I am, old Hagar Warren, bad as she is, can resist temptation without that prayer.

Naturally I learned to lie, a thing contrary to my inclination and nature, and a torture to my conscience, but I had not the courage to meet the flogging, or the firmness to resist temptation and the persuasion of my young companions who rejoiced in a domestic freedom of which I knew nothing.

" These were the only reproving words his father's full heart could utter, but Tom felt them; and when all knelt together before retiring to rest, to give humble and hearty thanks for the blessings of the past daywhile each heart poured forth its gratitude for the especial mercy that had been grantedhis prayed also for power to resist temptation.

He thought he had better keep humble, and resist temptations that might lead him out of the plainness and simplicity of the religious Society to which he belonged.

But when I resist temptation you find holes in my letters, and seem to imagine that I am taking no notice of things that happen.

The kind of absence of self-restraint which makes people unable to resist temptation, in any form, is a disease, and ought to be segregated.

They are oft so weak and unable to resist temptation, or to go about any commanded duty, as if they were quite dead.

GIL BLAS, a romance by Le Sage, from the name of the hero, a character described by Scott as honestly disposed, but being constitutionally timid, unable to resist temptation, though capable of brave actions, and intelligent, but apt to be deceived through vanity, with sufficient virtue to make us love him, but indifferent to our respect.

He lacked moral strength, the power to resist temptation.

Nobili was extremely impressionable; he also, as has been seen, wanted resolution to resist temptation.

She has not the resolution to resist temptation which she once possessed.

And it always is well for the occultist to resist temptation to use his powers for unworthy, sensational, or purely selfish purposes.