Quotes About Temptation

Man is weak, greedy, craven, lustful, prey to every species of vice and depravity. He will lie, steal, cheat, murder, melt down the very statues of the gods and coin their gold as money for whores. This is man.

How many of us have become drunks and drug addicts, developed tumors and neuroses, succumbed to pain killers, gossip, and compulsive cell phone use, simply because we don't do that thing that our hearts, our inner genius, is calling us to?

Resistance first feel like unhappiness. We're bored, no satisfaction, guilt, but we can't put our finger on it. Vices kick in.

Do research early or late. Don't stop working. Never do research in prime working time. Research can be fun. It can be seductive. That's its danger. We need it, we love it. But we must never forget that research can become Resistance.

If you cave in today you're 2x as likely to cave tomorrow. If you so much say hello, you're finished. Don't even pick up the phone.

When our heart wants to live in purity & do the right thing, God will keep us from falling into sin.

Our flesh takes over when we decide to be self-centered instead of self-sacrificing. Then there is Satan. God

no temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it" (1 Corinthians 10:13).

What chance did words have beside the distraction of her body?

But with a casino, people show up and happily plunk their money down to buy nothing. Money for nothing. That's the best business in the world.

It's been my observation, after years in the business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge to cheat.

As usual, when confronted with heights, my greatest fear was the irresistible urge to fling myself off.

influenced, and I'd be corrupting his

hard candies

Well, first you have to see the circular pattern of responses and really understand that proving the other wrong just pushes you further and further apart. The temptation to be the "winner" and to make the other admit she is at fault is just part of the trap.

I'd be a bad bet even if there there no Annie, Rosemary. I would have been. I'm just not good at saying no. I want–I always want to say yes. And I want to want to say yes. To everything. I'm a greedy person. More or less bottomlessly hungry.' He thinks of babies again.

Water beaded across her shoulders, shining like drops of milk, and her breasts swayed in the currents. It was the kind of vision you never really get over. I couldn't help it, I wanted to go and lick the milk beads from her shoulders. I opened my mouth. I wanted something. Something, I didn't know what. Mother, forgive.

each soul possessed a garden with a serpent that whispered temptations.

I cannot ignore this murderous self: it is there. I smell it and feel it. . . . When it says: you shall not sleep, you cannot teach, I shall go on anyway, knocking its nose in. Its biggest weapon is and has been the image of myself as a perfect success: in writing, teaching and living. . . . My demon of negation will tempt me day by day, and I'll fight it, as something other than my essential self, which I am fighting to save.20

Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.

holding a position from which the enemy is trying to dislodge you, or perhaps, as Tu Yu says, when he is trying to entice you into a

I know I ate at least four cookies, which probably guarantees me a first-class ticket to hell for gluttony.

So we each had a piece of chocolate for dessert. I'd almost forgotten how much I love chocolate, how there's something about it that makes life a little more wonderful.

It's amazing. I never used to like red cabbage, but now when I get only a teaspoon of it, it's all I can think about. How lovely. How tasty. How not fish it is.