Quotes About Temptation

God would not allow Adam and Eve to eat of the forbidden tree, even though it was good for food, pleasant to the eye and to be desired to make one wise (Gen. 3).

Sin does not please men whether they are full or fasting.

To be merciful to [indwelling] sin is to be cruel to yourself.

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

Things are of the snake.

When a woman orders fruit salad for two, she perfects the original sin.

Man dwells between passion and compulsion

The greatest boon of modern life is also the greatest villain: the availability of plentiful food.30,31,32,33,34,35 Or, rather, foodlike substances manufacturers concoct with the exact combinations of sugar, salt, and fat that we most desire.

It's always easier to avoid temptation than to resist it.

A woman lies down with the devil, she should expect to cach some hell. One way or another.

Yes. Within three minutes of making her acquaintance, he'd wanted to fuck this bug-eyed weirdo blind. Yes.

Yes, Baby...I've been drinkin'...I shouldn't come by I know...but I found myself in trouble, darlin'...and I have no place else to go. Honey I'm guilty..yes I'm guilty...and I'll be guilty for the rest of my life. How come I never do, what I'm supposed to do. Nothin' I try to do ever turns out right. You know how it is with me baby, I just can't stand myself...it takes a whole lotta medicine, darlin'...for me to pretend that I'm somebody else.

People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort.

Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience, and every area of temptation that the Bible clearly talks about. It demands the quality of commitment that Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us.

I tried gambling and it never paid off, women make you suffer, and greed has no end...

I couldn't tell, and I cared not at all. It was not her sex appeal but the obvious relish with which she devoured the hamburger that made my pulse begin to hammer with excitement

"A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy," he said dryly.

A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window.

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.

And it illustrates a profound observation by E. A. Burtt: [I]f he be a man engaged in any important inquiry, he must have a method, and he will be under a strong and constant temptation to make a metaphysics out of his method, that is, to suppose the universe ultimately of such a sort that his method must be appropriate and successful. 19

I folded into the mere sound of Tess's voice, dizzying, liquid, and lethal like freebase cocaine shimmering in its heated spoon. It was an electric sensation, not like the safe, smooth feeling of Mom's love, and I chose it outright.

But the problem with me was that as soon as I started thinking about getting it together, I got this mad craving desire to fuck it up.

Anything that has more buttercream than it does cake is going to be a no-no for me.