“I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.”

“I can resist everything except temptation.”

“I am not over-fond of resisting temptation.”

“… for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.”

“I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.”

“I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.”

“We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”

“I know it’s an awful temptation, the hankerin’ to show off your learnin’. I’ve felt it myself, but I always resist it. I know the awful consequences. p. 53”

“Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?”

“I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.”