Quotes About Temptation

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Nupital love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth, and embaseth it.

poesy is the wine of demons...

The devil is the source of temptation, but succumbing to temptation is our own doing. Only if we come face to face with our own sinfulness, do we begin to be grateful for the power of God's forgiveness. Only if we recognize the connection between sin and death, do we begin to probe the meaning of Christ's death and resurrection. Only if we experience the evil we have done, do we begin to understand how God has brought redemption out of loss, love out of hatred.

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

Does a 'greased palm' offer a 'slippery shake'?

The devil follows me day and night because he is afraid to be alone.

Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self-made sepulcher of a living man.

There wasn't a shed of doubt in her mind that he'd fulfill her every sexual fantasy and them some. But was a brief, hot affair worth losing his friendship?

Trajeron caldo en unas escudillas de madera, tan claro, que en comer una dellas peligrara Narciso más que en la fuente.

Las mujeres, el alcohol, la soledad. Quizá sean éstas las tres claves que lo explican todo y no explican nada.

If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength

People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.

I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or to joyless to live.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

Someday Isle is not a dream vacation spot. It is an imaginary destination to which you will never arrive. It is the carrot on the stick perpetually in front of you. So close you can see it, yet you will never reach it. Don't vacation on Someday Isle.

The devil will try any trick to keep God's people out of spiritual warfare... he has everything to gain by it.

When we do not listen to the lies that demons whisper into our ears, they will attack us with lies in the mouths of men.

God's way of training requires the constant exercise of an individual's spiritual senses so that he will train himself to discern good from evil. When a child is rightly trained, he will listen to the voice of the Spirit in times of temptation; and, when he is confronted with the allurements of the occult, his spiritual senses will have been trained "to distinguish good from evil" (Heb. 5:14).

Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold forth for them no temptation? Did Jesus suffer in vain?

it is self-denial and abstinence that maim and deform the soul.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.