Quotes About Temptation

Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.

Terminarás esta noche en mi cama o en el infierno.

Adultery is not a crime, it's an amusement.

There is nothing like good food, good wine, and a bad girl.

Woman first tempted man to eat; he took to drinking of his own accord.

The devil, through his ordinary action, which is temptation, and through his extraordinary action, which is the subject of this book, tries to destroy the confidence of each man and each woman to love and to be loved.

The most frequent weak points in man are, from time to time, always the same: pride, money, and lust.

2. As soon as you become too interested in worldly pleasure and ease, your conscience objects. You are your own worst enemy when you act against your conscience. The wrong which you do becomes worse when you try to excuse yourself or justify your actions. 3.

Longtemps, mon seul but dans la vie était de m'autodétruire. Puis, une fois, j'ai eu envie de bonheur. C'est terrible, j'ai honte, pardonnez-moi : un jour, j'ai eu cette vulgaire tentation d'être heureux. Ce que j'ai appris depuis, c'est que c'était la meilleure manière de me détruire.

Ich habe schreckliche Dinge erlebt, gelitten, geschuftet, Staub gefressen, den kürzeren gezogen, ich wurde schon verlassen, besiegt, erniedrigt und durch den Dreck geschleift, aber noch nie, niemals wurde mir soviel abverlangt, wie dich nicht anzurufen.

Je te suis fidèle: Tu es la seule personne que j'ai envie de tromper

Olen sinulle uskollinen: olet ainoa, jota haluan pettää.

Vous croyez que vous avez votre libre arbitre, mais un jour ou l'autre, vous allez reconnaître mon produit dans le rayonnage d'un supermarché, et vous l'achèterez, comme ça, juste pour goûter, croyez-moi, je connais mon boulot.

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

El defecto de que tú me hubieras curado, si me hubieses querido, era el de no colocar nada por encima del beneficio inmediato, de ser incapaz de dejar la pequeña y mediocre presa de los honorarios por la sombra del poder, porque no hay sombra sin realidad; la misma sombra es una realidad. Pero, ¡bah! Yo no tenía más que el consuelo de «ganar mucho», como el tendero de la esquina.

Un abogado de mi edad, ¿no hubiese podido conocer, acaso, ciertas insinuaciones? Prescindiendo del hombre de negocios, muchas mujeres jóvenes habrían deseado excitar al hombre... Pero yo había perdido la fe en las criaturas, o, más que nada, en mi poder de gustar a alguna de ellas.

Creative artists are probably no more difficult to seduce than plumbers, the problem is meeting them.

Anything that ties us to the world rather than drawing us closer to God is worldly.

Push something in someone's face, and they will shove it away reflexively. Threaten to snatch it away from them, and sometimes they become convinced that it is what they want.

The Devil has no better friend than an empty belly.

Italy's siren call lures us more and more.

But that won't give me a free hand to hold the beer.

Strengthen your commitment to Christ—now. Don't wait until the storms of temptation, or sickness, or old age threaten to blow you off-course; now is the time to strengthen your faith.

Learn to take sin seriously—be on guard against it and resist its tug, fight its power. But most of all learn to take the Holy Spirit seriously, calling on Him to help you overcome sin's power and live a holy and godly life.