Quotes About Temptation

If you want something, and you want it, you shouldn't just go and steal it.

So to make those checks better, I used to steal lollipops and sell them at school - but I got caught.

I believe that people generally want to be what we call good. They want to cooperate with people. They don't want to steal; they don't want to cheat. But everybody has a price. Everybody has an incentive.

I started stealing in ninth grade. And I don't mean a pack of gum from the convenience store here and there. I mean stealing on the regular. It got really bad. It was one hundred percent an addiction.

If you're presented with choices that steer you toward your worst instincts, that's what you'll choose. If I'm presented with Snickers bars, I won't necessarily seek out kale.

He was going to hell in the old hand basket, and he decided that maybe he would take someone with him.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasts of it, is a devil.

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

From hence, ye Beauties, undeceiv'd, Know one false step is ne'er retriev'd, And be with caution bold. Not all that tempts your wand'ring eyes And heedless hearts, is lawful prize; Nor all, that glisters, gold.

People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes

The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.

Have no expectations except to be fiercely tempted to your last breath.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Offices are as acceptable here as elsewhere, and whenever a man has cast a longing eye on them, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

When a man has cast his longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

We know in spite of our weakness that God will give us the strength to get through every trial and temptation. "As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you" (John 15:9).

But once in a while you might see me at In and Out Burger they make the best fast food hamburgers around.

Know well that the enemy laboureth in all wise to stay thy desire in good and to make thee void of all good exercise.

Now by the sorrows of the souls in hell, Who first lays hand on me, I'll be his priest

Lucifer's last words in heaven may have been "Non serviam," but none has served the Almighty so dutifully, since His sideshow in the clouds would never draw any customers if it were not for the main attraction of the devil's hell on earth.