Quotes About Temptation

Are there not moments, he asked William, when you would also do shameful things to get your hands on a book you have been seeking for years?

çünkü gündüz uykusu bedenin günah? gibidir. Ne denli çok iÅŸlenirse, o denli çok istenir.

Abigor, pecca pro nobis… Amon, miserere nobis… Samael, libera nos a bono… Belial eleison… Focalor, in corruptionem meam intende… Haborym, damnamus dominum… Zaebos, anum meum apries… Leonard, asperge me spermate et inquinabor

You mean that between desiring good and desiring evil there is a brief step, because it is always a matter of directing the will. This is true. But the difference lies in the object, and the object is clearly recognizable. God on this side, the Devil on that.

Åžeytanla yap?lan anlaÅŸmalar?n güzel yan?, insan?n onlar? kiminle iÅŸ yapt???n? bile bile imzalamas?d?r. Yoksa Cehennem'le öldürülmenin nedeni nedir?

Il sonno diurno è come il peccato della carne: più se ne è avuto più se ne vorrebbe, eppure ci si sente infelici, sazi e insaziati allo stesso tempo.

dienos miegas yra lyg k?no nuod?m?: kuo daugiau jos esi patyr?s, tuo daugiau jos trokšti, bet jautiesi nelaimingas, kartu sotus ir alkanas.

Maar het is me vaak gebeurd dat ik de verleidelijkste voorstellingen van de zonde juist aantrof in de geschriften van die mannen van onkreukbare deugdzaamheid, die de bekoring en de invloeden ervan veroordeelden. Teken dat zij worden gedreven door een zodanige ijver om van de waarheid te getuigen dat zij, uit liefde voor God, niet aarzelen aan het kwaad alle verlokkingen toe te schrijven waarin het zich hult, om de mensen beter in kennis te stellen van de manieren waarop de Boze hen bekoort.

There are times when I think of switching to narcotics. There, at least you can rely on a heroin pusher to push heroin.

I felt dull and somnolent, for daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh: the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.

Palladism. Then I came to Paris. Maybe they wanted to

often the step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is very brief

The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maiden's?

she was standing upon the brink of the pit of hell and throwing in snowballs to lower the temperature.

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

Newspapermen are human, and cannot be blamed by their owners if now and then they yield to the temptation to publish the news.

The risk her stories posed to others—and to herself—was more subtle. When she was younger, she had used secrets as if they were currency, but she'd found out how secrets could use her instead by becoming stronger than she. It happened whenever she couldn't stay away from a secret—drawn to it the way Georg Weiler was drawn to the bottle—though she sensed it would be better for her not to know.

Kevin tried not to look at the tautness of her blouse over her breasts. He'd spent years schooling himself out of sexist responses, but it was hard when women's bodies were so present, so attractive, so tempting.

My own ultraviolet darling. Lolita

As long as Flynn kept his tie on, he wouldn't turn into Tony. Besides, most sexual encounters began when a guy loosened his tie. A loose tie led to everything becoming loose. Flynn wanted to stay tight.

You must be a wizard." She took an unsteady breath. "Because you can turn a rational, intelligent woman into a lusty wench who would do anything—anything—to have you between her thighs." "Good

by making himself a priest made himself a demon.

When a man does wrong, he should do all the wrong he can; it is madness to stop half-way in crime!

He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.