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Quotes About Temptation

In this manner, I continued with Satan for ten days. His answer and blasphemy were too shocking to pen; till I was worn out with rage and malice against him, I could not bear myself.
~ Joanna Southcott
The way Satan works is he offers you stuff that could look good to the eye and makes you feel comfortable, and if you follow that path all the worries and troubles will go away.
~ Israel Folau
It worries me about what happens if people in government are looking for that next job: 'Yeah I'm working now, not as much money as I could be making, but when I leave here, that's where I'm headed.' That ultimately infects whatever it is that they're doing.
~ Elizabeth Warren
Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
~ Joey Adams
I sometimes worry that by encouraging so many more people to try their hand at baking through 'The Great British Bake Off,' I'm going to find myself in court one day charged with accelerating the national epidemic of obesity! To which I will plead not guilty. A slice of Victoria sandwich is never going to harm anyone.
~ Paul Hollywood
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
~ Aldous Huxley
Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.
~ W. C. Fields
Temptation is just the feeling that you're the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That's something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I'm in, the same thing exists! But it's 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you're in the limelight, you can get anything you want.
~ Kendrick Lamar
If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
~ Abu Bakr
Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder.
~ John Zimmerman
After a sound drubbing followed by half a day's fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever.
~ Stijn Streuvels
Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
~ Branch Rickey
But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.
~ Patrick McGoohan
Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
~ Edward Coke
Sleeping with your phone in your bedroom is never a good idea, but it's even worse when you're bullied online because it's too tempting to stay up all night trying to 'fix' the situation - which isn't possible anyway.
~ Rosalind Wiseman
I worship scones and danishes. If I never had another meal, I wouldn't care as long as I could eat pastries and jelly doughnuts.
~ Gene Simmons
Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.
~ Peter De Vries
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
~ Daniel Defoe
I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.
~ Tori Amos
Our Heavenly Father loves us. He sent His Only Begotten Son to be our Savior. He knew that in mortality we would be in grave danger, the worst of it from the temptations of a terrible adversary. That is one of the reasons why the Savior has provided priesthood keys so that those with ears to hear and faith to obey could go to places of safety.
~ Henry B. Eyring
I have the worst sweet tooth on the planet.
~ Daisy Lowe
When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.
~ John Webster
I think alcohol is the worst drug of all. It makes you do things that you would never do or say things that you wouldn't.
~ Rob Ford
Social media is the devil. Absolute devil. Oh, my God. It's the worst thing ever.
~ DeMarcus Cousins