Quotes About Temptation

Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.

BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.

Sins have many side-effects. One of them is that they steal knowledge from you.

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

la carne da confianza e invita al abuso

It is a clever "wile" of Satan to tempt men to think that they cannot do what God requires because they do not feel like doing it, or that they must do what they feel like doing and cannot help themselves.

When clients think they are helpless, that some strange mysterious force is at work overpowering them, and they say that I Corinthians 10:13 does not apply to their case, the truth may be that they are not serious about wanting to do the Lord's will. They may be talking out of both sides of their mouths. They may deceive others or even themselves, in part, about the sincerity of their desire to obey God.

For the first time in history, sex is more dangerous than the cigarette afterward.

The night has already turned on that imperceptible pivot where two A.M. changes to six A.M. You know this moment has come and gone, but you are not yet willing to concede that you have crossed the line beyond which all is gratuitous damage and the palsy of unraveled nerve endings. Somewhere back there you could have cut your losses, but your rode past that moment on a comet trail of white powder and now you are trying to hang on to the rush.

There were little velvet handcuffs and small whips involved. I'm not opposed to little velvet handcuffs and small whips in principle, you understand. At least, I don't think I am. I haven't actually tried any of those things. But somehow in that particular context they did not appeal.

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Saintliness is also a temptation.

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.

Everywhere there is pleasure you will find a woman in disguise.

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?

It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.

If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

It was therefore natural for me to imagine what his penis would be if he smeared it for my benefit with so fine a substance, with that precious cobweb, a tissue which I secretly called the veil of the palace.

It would seem logical to pray to the devil, but no thief would dare do so seriously. To come to terms with him would be to commit oneself too deeply. He is too opposed to God, who, we know, is the final victor. A murderer himself would not dare pray to the devil.

Ah ! c'était beau, je vous jure, cette fille comme un gros fruit, et ce sein aimable et chariteux, et ce tété goulu.

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.

Twas easier to disarm the god of strength Than this Hippolytus, for Hercules Yielded so often to the eyes of beauty, As to make triumph cheap. ? Jean Racine, Phèdre