Quotes About Temptation

You know what whore is. Next the devil adultery, Enters the devil murder.

Betrayal means that, faced with opposition or temptation or ridicule, we fail to stand by a commitment to another. It's another instance of that vicious lack of integrity which affects human life and fellowship—we make promises but break them; our word is not our bond; our fidelity is worthless.

Sometimes the Devil doth preach.

When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart.

Thus it is unquestionably true that he who has been born of God, by "keeping himself," does not, cannot sin; and yet, if he does not keep himself, he may commit all manner of sin with greediness.

He felt his inadequacy to the goal he had so recklessly chosen and felt the attraction of the world he had abandoned.

That was on a Tuesday, and for the next two days the manuscript lay untouched on his desk. For reasons that he did not fully understand, he could not bring himself to open the folder, to begin the reading which a few months before would have been a duty of pleasure. He watched it warily, as if it were an enemy that was trying to entice him again into a war that he had renounced.

Rosie Tanguay could take the studies and shove them right up her skinny behind. Bev knew why she smoked. She smoked for the same reason she ate: it gave her something to look forward to. It was as simple as that.

Here you are, painting the town red, alone with two young men you only met just last week in a shady night club playing illegal music in a foreign country. Come on." He pulled at my hand persuasively, I'll bet you know how to Fox-Trot.

I love your lips when they're wet with wine and red with wicked desire

He covered her hands with his. "Why the hurry?" "Seriously?" She stared at him, her jaw dropping. "I'm on fire! If we wait one more minute, I'm certain the sheets will spontaneously combust. I won't be held responsible if your house burns down because you wanted to waste time on foreplay.

When he stood before her naked, he couldn't believe this beautiful woman, with the pale skin, flaming auburn hair, and eyes the color of spring hay, lay waiting for him. Phoebe's cheeks flushed a pretty pink. "You look like you're hungry and ready to eat the proffered offering." "I am, and I will.

Unfortunately, even as he removed his shirt to reveal shoulders good enough to make a girl go slack-jawed, his only thought was of the errant au gratin potato. "Here you go, Doll," he said, holding his shirt out to her. "Maybe you could get that cheese out, before it's too late.

You remember the story I told you about the witch named Circe? She lived on an island alone, but men wandered there all the time, pretending to be blown off course. She turned every one of them into pigs, but they kept coming. Just to nibble at her painted toes a while before the slaughter. Well, turning men into pigs is no particular feat. The real exercise is getting pigs to write checks.

Just the mother, father, and two little baby deer lit by the reddish glow of the setting sun. It was so beautiful, so perfect, so wonderful, and I thought, "Oh, I wish I had a gun." I could've just  Ã¢â'¬Â¦ BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG! I could have shot 'em, gutted em, skinned em, then sprinkled em on my cereal.

The first time the temptation comes, meet it in such a decided manner that it will never be repeated!

Let the youth remember that here they are to build characters for eternity, and that God requires them to do their best. Let those older in experience watch over the younger ones; and when they see them tempted, take them aside, and pray with them and for them.

Our danger is not from scarcity, but from abundance. We are constantly tempted to excess.

The moment you grasp God's promises by faith and say, I am the lost sheep that Jesus came to save, a new life will take possession of you, and you will receive strength to resist the tempter.—In Heavenly Places, p. 116.

Weakness, halfheartedness, and indecision provoke the assaults of Satan; and those who permit these traits to grow will be borne helplessly down by the surging waves of temptation. Everyone who professes the name of Christ is required to grow up to the full stature of Christ, the Christian's living head.

When the character is lacking in purity, when sin has become a part of the character, it has a bewitching power that is equal to the intoxicating glass of liquor.

If the love of God will not induce the rebel to yield the terrors of an eternal hell will not drive him to repentance,

Thus Esau despised his birthright." In disposing of it he felt a sense of relief. Now his way was unobstructed; he could do as he liked. For this wild pleasure, miscalled freedom, how many are still selling their birthright to an inheritance

Satan watches eagerly to find Christians off their guard. O that the followers of Christ would remember that eternal vigilance is the price of eternal life. Many have a slumbering faith. Unless