Quotes About Temptation

One of the adversary's sharpest tools is to convince us that we are no longer worthy to pray. No matter who you are or what you may have done, you can always pray.

Unwinding a habit that you have allowed to entangle you can be difficult. But the power is in you. Do not despair. The Prophet Joseph Smith taught that 'all beings who have bodies have power over those who have not.' You can resist temptation!

It is not likely that you will ever have a personal encounter with the adversary; he does not show himself that way. But even if he came personally to you to test and tempt you, you have an advantage. You can assert your agency, and he will have to leave you alone.

I'm staring at this girl who I know would break me if I loved her but I can't help it.

He checked his watch. "One more drink," Win said. "And then I will go in the other room because—oh, you'll love this—Mee so horny." I

Matt was not a good drinker. He knew that. He could not hold his liquor. He was already past buzzed and nearing inebriation. The key, of course, was knowing when to stop—maintaining the high without the aftermath. It was a line many people tried to find. It was a line most tripped over. Tonight

Hey," Matt called after her, holding up his new phone and arching an eyebrow. "Want to try out the, uh, video feature?" "The video only lasts fifteen seconds." "Fifteen seconds." He considered that, shrugged, and said, "So we'll extend foreplay." Olivia understandably groaned. They

It was dark out. Ray debated whether he should just head home and go to bed or hit a bar so seedy it was called Tetanus. Tough call when you have so many options. He

The secret is honey.

If one is unable to buy Courvoisier, one should forcibly restrain oneself from serving strawberries Romanoff for dessert.

I am in love with your sinners," responded Theron, as he shook hands with Celia, and trusted himself to look fully into her eyes. "I've had five days of the saints, over in another part of the woods, and they've bored the head off me.

I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard. But he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted - if I could hit 'em; but to remember it was a sin to kill a mockingbird.

She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.

It seems to me, that love could be labeled poison and we'd drink it anyways.

The easy way out of this would be to marry Hank and let him labor for her. After a few years, when the children were waist-high, the man would come along whom she should have married in the first place. There would be searchings of hearts, fevers and frets, long looks at each other on the post office steps, and misery for everybody.

You are too young to understand it,' she said, 'but sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is more dangerous than a whiskey bottle...

There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire.

There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire." Atticus

sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle

somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers.

Your trouble, now, you want to have your cake and eat it: you want to stop the clock, but you can't.

The bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of one man

Bazen bir adam?n elindeki ?ncil, baban?n elindeki viski ?i?esinden daha tehlikeli olabilir.

Life is like a box of cookies.