Quotes About Temptation

The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell, up here in Boston it's a passion play.

The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.

Shame is one of the greatest aphrodisiacs in the world, anyway, built into religion.

The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop or undermine, and destroy.

Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?

I'm a little vague on the details but aren't doughnuts just the most marvellous thing to ever come out of organised religion?

I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.

Wondering if God loves us when we're cheating? Oh, but why he lets us feel things, if it's wrong.

The devil makes a great deal of the religion we see.

O! I shall soon despair, when I shall seeThat Thou lovest mankind well, yet wilt not choose me, And Satan hates me, yet is loth to lose me.

And on the eighth day, Satan laughed.

Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.

The Manifestation of your dream is probably right around the corner, that is why the devil is working overtime on you trying to make you give up.

Beware! devil occupies your soul with forbidden desires

Satan is never your well-wisher. Get the pleasure of making him annoyed on you by doing good deeds

I plan to be a sinner tonight. Could've been something else, but looked way too good in my red dress to be anything Christian.

The devil is the most stubborn verisimilitude on earth!

Willmore: There is no sinner like a young saint.

I don't even like the phrase 'opportunity to sin' because it implies the opportunity to obey.

You ask me, I'd guess heaven and hell look pretty much the same, " I replied. "Only in hell, everything is just a little out of reach.

As a rule, Americans are big on that word "choice" and some souls can be captured simply by dangling before the creature a continual, lifelong supply of things from which to choose.

You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment.

If you stay on this path as long as I have, you'll soon learn that the road to providence leads right through perdition. And along that road, the devil's waiting to collect his pound of flesh.

. . .the young man who rings the bell at the brothel is unconsciously looking for God.