Quotes About Temptation

You know very well what the right choice is, yet you keep making the wrong one.

If you have two years of sobriety behind you, then take a drink, you're much more likely to keep on drinking because the mere act of taking a drink—an irrevocable decision—will make you suddenly start to discount all the information and experience you have about the value of sobriety. You'll rationalize (I can control my drinking), minimize (A few drinks won't kill me), and deny (Well, I guess I never really was an alcoholic).

Alcohol and other drugs may be used to give relief from the depression. But the relief is only temporary, at best, and usually the person just hates himself more for giving in to temptation. Alcohol itself is a depressant, and long-term alcohol abuse may lead to chronic depression

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!

All women like chocolate, it's like female catnip.

Beware the stranger offering gifts, as true for man as it is for fish

you can take the man out of the evil, but can you take the evil out of the man?

The devil will tell a thousand truths to sell one lie.'

Chocolate is God's apology for brocolli

Then, as he pulled her supple body atop him,

I'm about to fuck up, he thought clearly, and his next thought was, but I don't have to. This was followed closely by a third thought, the last of this familiar sequence, which was, but I'm going to anyway.

My dad once told me something when I was young and having boyfriend problems. He said all guys are guided by three things: their head, their heart and their dick. And those three things are always fighting with each other inside guys to be the one that makes the decisions. So, my question to you, young man, is which one guides you when you want to be with me?

And when all of the flourless chocolate cakes & chocolate mousse or ganache cakes have come and gone, there will still be nothing like a fudgy brownie, dry & crackled on top, moist & dense within, with a glass of cold milk.

Discouragements, then, must come from ourselves and Satan, who laboureth to fasten on us a loathing of duty.

If those also of the younger sort would ask of themselves, why God should not have the flower and marrow of their age? And why they should give their strength to the devil?

All light that is not spiritual, because it wanteth the strength of sanctifying grace, yieldeth to every little temptation, especially when it is fitted and suited to personal inclinations. This is the reason why Christians that have light little for quantity, but yet heavenly for quality, hold out, when men of larger apprehensions sink.

Discouragements, then, must come from ourselves and from Satan, who labors to fasten on us a loathing of duty.

But damn if there isn't anything sexier than a slender boy with a handgun, a fast car, a bottle of pills.

Kissing degenerates into biting.

while desire, like a monster, crawls up out of the lake

but will you let me kiss your neck, baby? Do I have to tie your arms down?

There's no mistake , he says. It's your drink, the one you asked for, just the way you like it. How can you refuse?

You try to warn him, you tell him you will want to get inside him, and ruin him, but he doesn't listen.

and I was trying to convince you that I was a vampire.