Quotes About Temptation

San Gregorio dice: "El pecado que no se deshace por la penitencia, en seguida arrastra por su peso a otro pecado".

with that very large part of mankind who have religion enough to make them uneasy when they do wrong, and not religion enough to keep them from doing wrong, he followed a very different system.

Or light or dark, or short or tall, she sets a spring to snare them all; all's one to her--above her fan, she'd make sweet eyes at Caliban.

like all wicked people he could do things which defied the means of honest men, for evil is always more easily managed than virtue.)

Sin is a viper that does always kill where it is not killed.

One of Satan's devices to keep poor souls in a sad, doubting, and questioning condition is causing them to be always posing and musing upon sin; to mind their sins more than their Saviour: yea, so to mind their sins as to forget and neglect their Saviour. Their eyes are so fixed upon their disease that they cannot see their remedy, though it be near; and they do so muse upon their debts that they have neither mind nor heart to think of their surety.

The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater.

The best course to prevent falling into the pit is to keep at the greatest distance from it; he who will be so bold as to attempt to dance upon the brink of the pit, may find by woeful experience that it is a righteous thing with God that he should fall into the pit.

Greater sins do sooner startle the soul, and awaken and rouse up the soul to repentance, than lesser sins do. Little sins often slide into the soul, and breed, and work secretly and undiscernably in the soul, till they come to be so strong, as to trample upon the soul, and to cut the throat of the soul.

There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction.

The moment we give into temptation, Satan immediately changes his strategy and becomes the accuser. Thomas Brooks

Many eat that on earth that they digest in hell.

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

Thomas de Quincey

I do not readily believe that any man having once tasted the divine luxuries of opium will afterwards descend to the gross and mortal enjoyments of alcohol, I take it for granted

For if 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. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop.

I had a kiss with Raquel Welch's daughter - she was a very naughty kisser.

I'm doing naughty things, I'm drinking too much, I'm going to clubs. It really didn't matter to me, other than the fact that some parents wouldn't let their kids hang out with me.

I've always loved donuts. I can't go near one or eat one, because then I'm just done for. I always want more.

Looks are like honey: They'll attract flies, bees, bears, but they won't necessarily keep them.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

I have a habit of needing cake or chocolate when I get an energy dip around 4 P.M. I wish I could stop.

I lived in a bad neighborhood. I knew so many things a boy shouldn't know. I did so many things a boy shouldn't do.