Quotes About Temptation

All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99

A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.

With gold a man can do anything. It even sends souls to paradise.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

I don't eat red meat, but sometimes a man needs a steak.

It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.

There is something in the red of a raspberry pie that looks as good to a man as the red in a sheep looks to a wolf.

You gotta understand: I'm a man with needs that needs fulfilling. And if you ain't with it, somebody else is willing.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

The deceit, the lie of the Devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word.

The devil would gladly give a Bible to every man and promote obedience to its commands if in exchange we would surrender to him the Gospel

Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.

Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation.

As long as the vice of gluttony has a hold on a man, all that he has done valiantly is forfeited by him: and as long as the belly is unrestrained, all virtue comes to naught.

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

Satan can make men dance upon the brink of hell as though they were on the verge of heaven.

Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.

Men are going to go out on the road and they're going to find other women. So if you really want to save yourself a whole lot of heartache, do not fall in love with somebody in a band. Just don't.

Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke.

The idolatry the exists in a man's heart always wants to lead him away from his Savior and back to self-reliance no matter how pitiful that self-reliance is or how many times it has betrayed him.

In every man's heart there is a devil, but we do not know the man as bad until the devil is roused.

Even a strong man can succumb to the wiles of a pretty girl with pointy shoes.

The moth unwitting rushes on the fire, Through ignorance the fish devours the bait, We men know well the foes that lie in wait, Yet cannot shun the meshes of desire.

Men are only as loyal as their options.