Quotes About Temptation

The 12-step chocolate program: NEVER BE MORE THAN 12 STEPS AWAY FROM CHOCOLATE!

The 12-step chocoholics program: Never be more than 12 steps away from chocolate!

the beleaguered Christ-follower who's being pummeled by temptation doesn't cave in because he knows this life is brief and the next one isn't.

Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all.

When you start to say to yourself, just one look back, just one glance, the danger will have begun for you.

We must despise all these temptations and pay no attention whatsoever to them.

We are not as yet in our true country, and as gold is tired in the fire so must our souls be purified by temptation.

The rational mind finds yielding to fear an irresistible temptation; but by indulging in this temptation, the mind slays itself.

Once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

the love of money is the root of all evils." - John de Alençon, Pg, 64

If you hang your swimsuit On the refrigerator door, The goodies inside Will be easier to ignore.

Commit a sin twice, and it will not seem to thee a sin.

Never put thyself in the way of temptation: even David could not resist it.

I'd like to be able to do that too, matey. Window-shop, go to the odd movie. What's window-shopping really like, eh? If it's too much of a feast, you'd better not tell me.

Did you hear about the fellow who returned a shirt to the clothing store and told the salesman, "After I got home, I realized that I don't like this shirt. I just liked the song that was playing in the store when I bought it.

Original sin—that is to say, the sin of having been born with human nature that contains within it the temptation to evil—will always make a mockery of attempts at perfection based upon manipulation of the environment.

Behaviorism was but one instance of a terrible temptation for all intellectuals, namely that of nothing-but-ism. History is nothing but the clash of class interests, human behavior is nothing but a response to economic incentives, etc., etc.

The prevention of evil will always require more than desirable social arrangements: it will forever require personal self-control and the conscious limitation of appetites.

the primrose path to earthly perdition.

The city has its cunning wiles, no less than the infinitely smaller and more human tempter. There are large forces which allure with all the soulfulness of expression possible in the most cultured human. The gleam of a thousand lights is often as effective as the persuasive light in a wooing and fascinating eye.

There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at some time, on some point, that devil masters each of us…it is not having been in the Dark House, but having left it that counts.

Dumnezeu e-n ochi. La fel si Diavolul, de fiecare data cand clipesti.

Leave your wife and children, never have contact with them again, and I will give you a life of luxury. He sold his soul. And he'd done it with both eyes open.