Quotes About Temptation

The main ploy of the flesh is to slip worldliness into the mind under the guise of necessity.

the flesh is a "fisher of men.

the uncontrolled senses are considered plunderers. The good position one attains by executing religious principles is wasted as the plundering senses take it away

What had possessed her to kiss him?

I still didn't look at him. I was afraid if I did that, I would turn around, run back to him, and hurl myself into his arms.

As we stay there, pressed against each other, the room smelling of coffee and sex, I hear him mutter . . . perhaps to himself, perhaps to me, "Last time, my ass.

How can I fight so hard for freedom only to be enticed by captivity?

My devil is winning.

I wonder if perfume could set a man drunk.

Fat babies! Don't they sound delicious? But I've never eaten any, because my conscience tells me it is wrong. If I had no conscience I would probably eat the babies and then get hungry again, which would mean that I had sacrificed the poor babies for nothing. No; hungry I was born, and hungry I shall die. But I'll not have any cruel deeds on my conscience to be sorry for.

You have; and I've restrained a good many of them," replied the insect. "But there are opportunities for so many excellent puns in our language that, to an educated person like myself, the temptation to express them is almost irresistible.

Katherine, he said. He was still smiling. Yes. She leaned closer. Katherine... Yes, Damon? Go to hell.

And you're wasted with your ladies. Yeah I'm the reason why you always getting faded.

I think so many times we feel like we're lacking something in our lives and we try to fill it with the wrong things. Sometimes it's drugs, sometimes it's a relationship you shouldn't be in.

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels

The only business in the world bigger than gambling is religion...but gambling is not nearly so corrupt.

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.

The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.

Anyone who does anything for pleasure to indulge his selfish soul will surely burn in Hell.

How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!

It is easier to get rid of one's religion than to get rid of one's sins.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.