Quotes About Temptation

I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.

It is a bad idea to fixate on the wedding day while neglecting the rest of a marriage in which an initial virgin may stray into illicit beds. A onetime sexual tiger who becomes monogamous ( through sheer force of will or love) in marriage may deserve quite a bit more applause than the wedding-day virgin who later strays.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance shows the Greek word (Greek word number 3735) used in Revelation 17:9, to mean "mountain," and is the same word used in Matthew 4:8 when Satan tempted Jesus on an "exceeding high mountain.

Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.

It was never about the money; at times no money was involved, just sex." "Then what?" "It was always about—" I had never asked that question of myself. "It was always about—" No word came, no answer. "Power.

The invitation to rot obliviously, to die without feeling it, to grow old looking young, is everywhere in this glorious, sunny, multi-colored city.

I'm so horny the crack of dawn isn't safe.

You know what you have to do, Matthew." Darkness began to close around him, until all he could see was the head ot the deer. The deer and something beyond... "Do it Matthew," the voice whisperd. "Do it for me...

Mark provides us, for example, with the first mention in Christian history of the figure we call John the Baptist. Mark is the first to relate the story of Jesus' baptism and the account of his temptation in the wilderness. He is the first to suggest that the betrayal was by the hand of one of "the twelve." He is the first New Testament writer to associate miracles with the memory of Jesus. He is the first to assert that Jesus taught in parables.

The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies an accident going to happen.

A strange species we are. We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy, and sick.

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

Lewd did I live & evil did I dwel

A favorite freebie was the heat-sensitive Oxy-Contin mug that bore the words: "The one to start with . . . ." When filled with hot coffee, the rest of the slogan materialized: "The one to stay with.

That's oxycodone—one of the most irresistible opioid narcotics ever cooked up in the six-thousand-year history of dope.

And so, we presume nothing whatsoever on account of ourselves or any of our merits, but having been supported only by the obedience of Christ crucified, we thoroughly acquiesce to it, so that when we believe in Him it becomes ours. Again, this alone is abundantly sufficient both for covering over all our iniquities and also for rendering us safe and secure against all temptation at the same time.

The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

When I leave school I will drive around looking for prostitutes like Julia.

There was no telling what dangers that land concealed, but it seemed to call to her.

I've been trying to kill that name most of my adult life, but I always weaken when somebody whispers it in my ear.

Don't stop and drift in the middle of the traffic lane, even if the fish are biting. The fish you catch might weigh many tons and have a propeller on the end and a bulbous bow on the other.

Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.

What's a whore? She's like the guilty counterfeited coin Which whosoe're first stamps it brings in trouble all that receive it.

When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.