Quotes About Temptation

Indeed if they ever once saw the endless supply of eternal opportunities The Adversary offers them every temporal moment of day after day of their fuddled little lives, they would stagger at the sheer industry and prodigality of His efforts. Conversely, if they ever gained a glimpse of how their ordinary actions actually effect and shape things not only under time but without, the very vast weight of that would almost certainly end in their becoming humble.

If we blind them to The Adversary —decrease their desire for The Desire— while at the same time encourage them to do anything else they desire with increasing "freedom of choice," then eventually we snuff out desire while leaving demand in tact.

Andreas - K?rm?z? ???kta geçmeye benzemiyor ha Woyzeck.

Es una lástima que beber agua no sea pecado, clama un italiano, ¡qué bien sabría!

The serpent is helpless unless he finds an apple to work with.

Ganging up on a short-range interest isn't the same thing as killing it.

There is a line of demarcation well defined between the Lord's territory and the devil's territory. If you will stay on the Lord's side of the line you will be under his influence and will have no desire to do wrong; but if you cross to the devil's side of that line one inch you are in the tempter's power and if he is successful, you will not be able to think or even reason properly because you will have lost the Spirit of the Lord.

The Seven Year Itch

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

An institution which is populare because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing.

Hell is full of musical amateurs music is the brandy of the damned.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

I spent a lot of money on booze, women and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

Drink,Drugs and shagging models. The rest I just wasted.' George Best on where his millions went.

Operating in the black market is like trying to get laid in a city you don't know. In a strange city, if you have enough money, you're bound to find something, but there might be a disease contracted, you might get rolled or arrested, and there's no telling how much it will cost. With you wife, its predictable and in a steady quantity.

An apple is an excellent thing — until you have tried a peach.

Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.

A second guideline may be found from the implicit comparison between Christ and Adam.48 The heart of the Adamic temptation was to grasp for equality with God (Gen. 3:5: "You will be like God"). Adam attempted to seize equality with God; Christ did not. By contrast, Christ chose the way of self-emptying rather than self-aggrandizement. For these two reasons the second rendition is to be preferred.49

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

He kissed my neck. The kiss sent tingling warmth down into my fingertips. I turned and he kissed me again, on the mouth. I was so tired . . . I wanted to melt against him and let him hold me. "You're trying to take advantage of an injured naked woman." "I know," he whispered in my ear, drawing me closer. "How awful.