Quotes About Temptation

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Every man needs his Siren To check his courage and strength When he hears her song In his travels through the unknown.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

Devil and God – two sides of the same face.

The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.

There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.

My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.

There is no safety-net to protect against attraction.

What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?

The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.

How mysteriously alone we are! How tempting to imagine that if we're loved, our loneliness will be dispelled.

God, they'd barely begun and she didn't know how much more she could stand before the lust-drunk cells in her body rocketed over the edge. Starting

He was the kind of guy that made a woman want to rip his shirt open and watch the buttons scatter along with her inhibitions.

keep looking at me like that," he warned, leaning casually into the counter and sipping his coffee. "see what happens." "i'm going to lose my job over you." "i'd give you another one." i snorted. "as what? your sex slave?" "what a provocative suggestion. let's discuss.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

In the hour of temptation, God's goodness is always impugned, and God's truth is always brought into question, and all other tokens of His love, His veracity, are always obscured.

It is too easy lately to drink too much. To love the warm way it numbs. And I feel Jake watching me; he's counting my drinks too.

It is the easiest thing in the world to go to astray, but always difficult to return.

It will not do, my friend, to grant an easy indulgence to natural appetite and desire, for they ever seek to be our masters.

No matter how hard you might try, you can't escape the spiritual bond between you and your Maker. You can't drink it away. You can't smoke it away. You can't sex it away.

It's bitterness that drives you to alcohol or drugs or food or pornography or anything else as a method of coping with your season of suffering. When you've been consumed by bitterness, you develop a desire to consume anything that will get the taste out of your mouth—

Samson entertained Delilah, and she infiltrated his heart and took his secrets. Avoid entertaining thoughts that will destroy your peace.