Quotes About Temptation

Sugar is not love. But it can feel like it.

The main reason to be suspicious of fruit as a food for children was that it was just so delicious.

It's not birthday cake in itself that is the problem. It's the surrounding culture of food, where sweet treats are ever-present, consumed without ceremony.

Healthy eating should not preclude the odd cake. But it's good to be able to wait: if not for a while year, at least for an hour or two.

A treat cannot possibly have the same meaning in an era where white-flour cakes are everywhere and candy canes are sold by the dozen for less than the price of a loaf of bread.

It is a lonely occupation, being someone who wrestles to control their responses to food, given that modern life is steeped with things to eat, both real and imaginary.

You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and yet it cannot, for down beneath the water it is anchored. So many a soul sways toward heaven, but cannot ascend thither, because it is anchored to some secret sin.

Men who act under dishonest passions are like men riding fierce horses: they cannot stop when they will, and they ride to ruin.

It takes a man to make a devil.

Some sins, like asps, always carry their sting with them.

Sin is sweet in the mouth and bitter in digestion. It lies hard on the stomach.

No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.

There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.

Many people keep their old sins warm while they go to try on virtue and see if they like it.

Now, long before it came to the final reckoning, to payment of promise implied, she began to set the stage for the great renunciation. "Let's not spoil it," she would say, caressing the man's lapels with long silken fingers. "Let's not spoil what we have . . .

I never drink... wine.

The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.

If addiction is a disease, how do you first catch it? I mean, if you've never tried a single sodding drug in the first place, how could you become addicted? You couldn't. It wouldn't be possible. You are making a choice that first time. You are volunteering for the addiction. You know it's wrong and self-destructive but you do it anyway.

His lips brushed my ear. "In case you were wondering, this dress is better than the towel. But just so you know, I liked the towel too.

Maybe it was simply that falling in love wasn't something Lori would ever be able to turn away from, regardless of just how much pain she knew would be coming down the pike. And maybe, just maybe, as long as she never actually confessed to him how she felt, that would make it okay to give in to what she felt for Grayson for one night, beneath the moon, with the smell of wild grass and the ocean all around them...

How am I looking at you?" "Like I'm Little Red to your big bad wolf." "Well," he said slowly, "I do want to eat you.

You've got to understand , Angel, a man like me looks at a women like you and it's inevitable thatIm going to screw things up ".

Roman knew better than to let himself love like that. And yet, when

Don't hold my hand in here. It's hard for me to concentrate when you do." "You do realize that makes it even more tempting.