Quotes About Temptation

Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul." Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1941)

Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.

For lust of knowing what should not be known, we take the Golden Road to Samarkand.

Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day," Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies.

God calls himself "Baseer" [Observant], so that the knowledge that He is watching you may keep you from sinning.

Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

The devil has more knowledge than any of us, and yet is no better for it.

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.

The knowledge of evil tempteth to its commission.

Satan will try to use our troubles to worry and weaken us. But God uses them to strengthen us.

You cannot control sin. Sin will control you. Do not try to manage sin.

There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.

Sin will do a number on you.

The best thing there is to do when there is temptation is run.

When people get drunk they do things they shouldn't do.

You can minimize your sin. Rationalize your sin. Justify your sin.

Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

Lust and learning. That's really all there is, isn't it?

What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.

There's no disillusionment like learning that forbidden fruit can be unpleasant.

The devil knows if he can capture your thought life he has won a mighty victory over you.

I gave up drinking once -- it was the worst afternoon of my entire life.