Quotes About Temptation

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The strangest thing was that she was feeling very sexy. It couldn't be him; it must be the drinks. She really felt like crawling into bed with someone. She looked at the bartender. That was who she'd really like to get into bed with. The bartender. Or Carter. Or— Suddenly

She wondered if he would try to make love to her and if he did, whether she would let him. It was hard to refuse if someone really wanted to, She tried to remember how she had refused someone in the past and then realized that she couldn't remember because she had never actually done it.

Be careful,' Irene warned Miri. 'All boys want the same thing.' So do girls, Miri thought.

dope-pushers hang around there. But taking dope is even dumber than smoking, so nobody's going to hook me! We live on

The atmosphere's warm and fervid. The scent of it wafts up in dense waves... sweat laced with perfume like smoke from an oven of burning human lusts.

Wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.

Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that we are most tempted to lie.

No Eden valid without serpent.

Good habits are hard to establish and easy to lose. Bad habits are easy to establish and hard to break. The reason has to do with our depravity; our natural inclination is to sin, not be righteous.

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

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

Idolatry consists in harnessing God for our purposes, regarding Yahweh as a reliable ally in our interests, so that God finally becomes useful to us.11 That usefulness is a temptation of all zealous religion, conservative or liberal.

It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken

A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.

Drinking is fun! It makes me feel horrible and sexy!

and he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was—a woman.

the bee perishes because his lust for the lotus stupefies him and makes him stick to her even in death.

Younger guys have been approaching me lately. And asking me to buy them alcohol.

I blame my dad for my sweet tooth. His motto was 'Life is short; eat dessert first.' How can I argue with that?

Admit it, if you suddenly had magical powers, you would have turned that leftover meat loaf into pizza, too.

Thorne had to bite down hard on his tongue to keep from reacting to all the golden hair that tumbled down onto the man's shoulders.

Something touched my shoulder. I started to flinch. Stopped myself. The offer was too good. My cock throbbed in response.

Sexy with a capital SEX.