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Quotes About Temptation

If football wasn't a part of my life, there were three things that could have happened, and they were all bad. I would have likely been selling drugs, in jail or dead.
~ Chad Ochocinco
Life is very sweet to me, and there is no position of power or wealth that could tempt me from the throne God has given me.
~ Dwight L. Moody
I'm amorous but out of reach / A still life drawing of a peach.
~ Fiona Apple
I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life.
~ Oskar Kokoschka
It was always fun in the early days of Black Sabbath, when I stayed away from heavy drugs. Then someone gave me cocaine and I went, "Hallelujah!" I thought I'd found the meaning of life!
~ Ozzy Osbourne
There were chunks of my life when I was married, and when I was married I never cheated. But I made up for it when I wasn't married. You have to keep your hand in.
~ Hugh Hefner
Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder.
~ Iris Murdoch
Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
~ Sam Levenson
I needed to stop eating sweeties and cakes. It's the bane of my life. I had to lose the weight for my health.
~ Susan Boyle
I am attracted to the dark side of life!
~ Famke Janssen
The three classic ways in which the Devil tempts us are with a threat, a promise or a seduction.
~ Paulo Coelho
As you lose your life in the service of Father in Heaven's children, Satan's temptations lose power in your life.
~ Richard G. Scott
The next time you're tempted to groan, you might try to laugh instead. It will extend your life and make the lives of all those around you more enjoyable.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.
~ Joseph Campbell
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The demoniacal powers know this and do all they can to push you to strain your mind. It can be strained by dwelling on one theme until it cannot see anything else clearly—or by worry, anxiety, or even excessive "thinking" as to what is the will of God.
~ Jessie Penn-Lewis
Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
~ Jesus Christ
Everything squeezed, and warm cum spilled over Brent's hand, oozing onto the pillow beside his head. Brent bitterly lamented that he couldn't taste it, but no matter what had been said, one didn't swallow on the first date.
~ Jet Mykles
I thought I'd lost you, and I went nuts. Fucking nuts. I've spent the last few weeks trying to forget you. I wanted to convince myself that you were right. That we weren't right. I fucked Rachel, trying to forget you. It didn't work. I can't. The thought of being without you anymore is too depressing for words. Say you'll come home with me, Aaron.
~ Jet Mykles
The stealing began again with carrots, which apparently are the gateway vegetable, because soon it led to all manner of produce theft.
~ Jewel
Was it wrong to take a job just because you'd fallen in love with a bed?
~ Jill Mansell
It's amazing […] how perfectly honest people who would starve rather than steal sixpence, will steal books without compunction.
~ Jill Paton Walsh
There are four basic food groups: plain chocolate, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, and white chocolate.
~ Jill Shalvis
Simply put, Rick was like cheesecake—sinfully rich, luscious, and oh-so-bad for you.
~ Jilliane Hoffman