Quotes About Temptation

It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.

We know that passion, prejudice, party, and even good-will, tempt many who preserve a fair character with the world to deviate from truth in the laxity of conversation.

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence

In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth.

The truth is that the devil is very cunning. The truth is that he is not always as ugly as they say.

I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire

Lust should be stifled, for it cannot lead to truth.

I suppose that one is always tempted to challenge those who think that they and they alone possess the truth or the way or the key to the mystery.

Within the mind there are no lies-no possibility of deceiving oneself; and yet, somehow we all manage to bypass the safety of truth in pursuit of dangerous desires.

My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.

I can't help it if you drive me crazy."

Dianna Hardy, The Demon Bride

Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except of course when they are alone.

His youth had been so long ago that he could remember nothing of it but he presumed, erroneously, that he had tasted the purple fruit, had broken hearts and hymens, had tossed flowers to ladies on balconies, had drunk champagne out of their shoes and generally been irresistible.

The moral high ground was at the top of a slippery slope—

It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped Formica counter, and thrums with the gossip of criminals, policemen, shtarkers,and schlemiels, whores and night owls ... three or four floaters, solitaries, and drunks between benders lean against the sparkly resin counter, sucking the tea from their shtekelehs and working the calulations of their next big mistake.

The confirmed stick-in-the-mud will always fall victim to the interventions of other people acting on impulse, because if habit is his religion, then his Satan is change, and in the end, we are all prey to temptation.

Books were hungry things, and if you stayed too long in any one place, they would consume everything and everyone around you.

There's a fool of a devil in him that wants to feel the thrum of current. There's a current in him that wants to feel the devil in the wire.

No matter how much they tried to dress her up with neon and family entertainment she [Las Vegas] was still a whore.

Living in L.A. sometimes felt like you were riding shotgun with the devil to the apocalypse.

We're all junkies. It's just different drugs. I wish I had yours, but I don't.

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