Quotes About Temptation

Why, my client wondered, would a guy like me make his living like this? Well, you'd think the three hundred dollars he paid just to watch me take a shower would have given him a clue.

We don't have to be bad forever. We can fight our urges. We can choose to be good.

Horror is the result of sin. Sin gives way to temptation. Temptation is the number-one weapon of the Devil.

Four: Corruption of the Innocent. That's you guys.

She had tempted them as she had tempted him, with ancient knowledge and the path to power. But that past should stay buried, and power given easily comes with a terrible price. If

Dear children, keep yourselves from idols. (1 John 5:21 NIV)

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. (1 Cor. 10:13)

The Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it." (Gen. 4:6–7)

Otherwise, three little words would have leaked from his mouth. And undoubtedly doomed him in ways he couldn't even guess at. Bad time. Bad place. For that kind of thing. Forever.

Tempted to type meaningless twaddle all the time on Twitter...with alliteration, no less!

Let's be honest: the trappings of investment banking are quite tempting. I do miss it sometimes. And to be honest, there was a time I'd read the 'WSJ' in the morning, and for years I have done that.

I love Cheetos, those hot, spicy kind. And chocolate. Every time I'm in the airport I'm buying Cheetos and eating them on the airplane.

Time stoops to no man's lure.

most of the time we settle for half and i like it better, even as i know how wrong he was and his death useless, i tremble for i confess that something peversley pure calls to me from his memory

I'm fascinated by evil queens. They're very alluring and repellent at the same time, and I'm into that dichotomy.

The wild stuff is all so overrated. Drinking, you don't feel good all the time. There's a lot of down, a lot of misery.

The problem with drugs is that people forget to stop doing them. There's a time and a place for everything, Mr. Mackey, and it's called college.

I eat healthy most of the time, but I love chocolate. I can't help it!

The people who need to overcome temptation to the highest degree have the hardest time doing it.

It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to being with.

Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to contemplate upon the other side of indulgence.

I'm jackin' off reading Playboy on a hot afternoon, I'm a three time loser.

Every Christian in every time and place is going to be tempted by certain forms of heresy. I'm sure I'm tempted by my own.

Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.