Quotes About Temptation

Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.

The inner life must overcome the flesh or the flesh will overcome and destroy the inner life.

Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.

Alcohol was the background color in the fabric of Reggie's life.

I would like to stay stoned all the time, it scares me it's so good. I would like to stay stoned every minute of every day for the rest of my life.

sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency

Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.

Have you ever been to an AA meeting? No wonder these people are alcoholics - I've never needed a drink more badly in my life.

It's just so much more fun to play bad than good. Plus it's just good to get that out of your system so it doesn't show up in your personal life.

After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of your life

Flirting with the dark side has always had it's fascination. Because you learn, and there's wisdom there. Escpecially with the post-Freudian era with the young, the shadow is ninety percent gold. You hold treasures there that you need to learn about yourself to be a whole person.

Once we succumb to the temptations of censoring ideas with which we disagree, we step onto a slippery slope where everyone's freedom is at risk.

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.

Edward Slingerland

My central argument is that getting drunk, high, or otherwise cognitively

The person of God walks the edge; one side virtue, the other, vice.

The world is the great temptation. The great test. Those who chase the world have the world, but those who desire God above all else have peace of spirit. They made the choice to be free rather than happy.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Pride is the master sin of the devil.

Wall Street professionals know that acting on "inside" tips will break a man more quickly than famine, pestilence, crop failures, political readjustments or what might be called normal accidents. There is no asphalt boulevard to success in Wall Street or anywhere else. Why additionally block traffic?

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

wisdom, when it comes to sin, is that human wisdom wants to cover it up. Adam

Watch and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.

It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God." God will preserve all who walk in the path of obedience, but to depart from it is to venture on Satan's ground. There we are sure to fall. The Saviour has bidden us, "Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation." -2SAT