Quotes About Temptation

The heart is like a viper, hissing and spitting poison at God.

the Devil]... stands waiting for them, like greedy hungry lions that see their prey, and expect to have it...

So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it, or suggest anything to it. And this seems to be the reason why persons that are under the disease of melancholy are commonly so visibly and remarkably subject to the suggestions and temptations of Satan... Innumerable are the ways by which the mind may be led on to all kind of evil thoughts, by the exciting of external ideas in the imagination.

So if a man live in any way of lasciviousness, the more his impure lust prevails, the more sweet and pleasant will it make the sin appear, and so the more will he be disposed and prejudiced to think there is no evil in it.

Porque hay mucha oposición por parte de la carne, el mundo y el diablo

You must be willing for ever to leave all the ease, and pleasure, and profit of sin, to forsake all for salvation, as Lot forsook all, and left all he had, to escape out of Sodom.

We ought to be much concerned to know whether we do not live in the gratification of some lust, either in practice or in our thoughts: whether we do not live in the omission of some duty, some thing which God expects we should do; whether we do not go into some practice or manner of behaviour, which is not warrantable.

It's other people make be bad, love,' I said with conviction. 'Like you, I start out holy every single morning.

If you could jerk off to something else, like a hamburger, could you imagine the delight in being alive?

I saw the right way and approved it, but followed the wrong, until an emotion came along to provide some force.

In later studies, Mischel discovered that the successful children were those who looked away from the temptation or were able to think about other enjoyable activities.

Mischel discovers that the number of seconds you waited to ring the bell in 1970 predicts not only what your parents say about you as a teenager but also the likelihood that you were admitted to a top university. Children who were able to overcome stimulus control and delay gratification for a few extra minutes in 1970 were better able to resist temptation as teenagers, to focus on their studies, and to control themselves when things didn't go the way they wanted.27

The controlled system allows people to think about long-term goals and thereby escape the tyranny of the here-and-now, the automatic triggering of temptation by the sight of tempting objects.

For what the flesh desires is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit desires is opposed to the flesh; for these are opposed to each other, to prevent you from doing what you want.

We are right to note the license and disobedience of this member which thrusts itself forward so inopportunely when we do not want it to, and which so inopportunely lets us down when we most need it. It imperiously contests for authority with our will.8

and what about you? Do you wanna make out? - A little yeah. Unfortunately ,I'm working.

jedna delicja nie zaspokaja naszego apetytu w sposób, w jaki niemal zawsze robi to jeden kawaÅ'ek ciasta

I'm pretty sure the devil is made out of high fructose corn syrup.

the whole world turned into an all-you-can-eat buffet...

All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure with evil. -SOPHOCLES

The high is, according to the junkies, worth the side effect. For the record, this is one of the reasons I hate people.

He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster. —FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it. (1 Corinthians 10:13 NIV)

In my eyes, refusing cake is an immoral act.