Quotes About Temptation

There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls.

Virtue in the middle, said the Devil, when seated between two lawyers.

When a woman thinks by herself she thinks of evil.

Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.

When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.

He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.

Forbidden things have a secret charm.

Things forbidden have a secret charm.

One who is allowed to sin, sins less

Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more. —JOHN UPDIKE, The Witches of Eastwick

For flavor, instant sex will never supercede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): "What's the matter, sexy? Don't you like dehydrated fruit?

Vice is its own reward.

Mia's version of the twist is that of a sexy cat.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately when lawful, they do not excite desire.

What we learn from the story of Adam and Eve is simple. What we can have is never what we want. And when we can have what we wanted we want something else. It's human nature in a single luminous story. Our sin. Our fall. Our problem.

Just when we think we are the safest, when we feel no need to keep our guard up, to work on our inner integrity, to discipline ourselves for godliness — temptation will come!

Dietrich Bonhoeffer made the observation that when lust takes control, "At this moment God . . . loses all reality. . . . Satan does not fill us with hatred of God, but with forgetfulness of God.

Other helpful passages include Job 31:1, Proverbs 6:27, Mark 9:42ff., Ephesians 5:3-7, and 2 Timothy 2:22, some of which are commented upon below.)

At this moment [of lust] God . . . loses all reality. . . . Satan does not fill us with hatred of God, but with forgetfulness of God" (Dietrich Bonhoeffer).

The mind controlled by lust has an infinite capacity for rationalization.

In fact, the Devil is delighted when we spend our time and energy defending the Bible, as long as we do not get around to actually reading the Bible.

Are men truly such idiots that they cannot resist two orbs of flesh?

Votre désir sera toujours plus fort que votre intelligence et votre instinctive prudence. Vous êtes une enfant gâtée qui n'hésite pas à prendre le jouet d'une autre même si, une fois en votre possession, le jouet vous semble moins beau. Vous voulez tout, Léa, et tout de suite