Quotes About Temptation

The problem with making an extrinsic reward the only destination that matters is that some people will choose the quickest route there, even if it means taking the low road. Indeed, most of the scandals and misbehavior that have seemed endemic to modern life involve shortcuts.

I needed to confess my sin: I was once again having impure thoughts about saving the world.

it just sat there hour after hour pushing the button and giving itself jolts of pleasure. It passed up food, it passed up sex.

We make deals with the devil every day, metaphorically.

Adam's hot Pheebs! Admit it girl. That body is like some kind of happy experiment. It's like he was manufactured in a nympho scientist's secret laboratory

Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero!

My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can't have and wanting what you shouldn't want. And I shouldn't want you.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

It's almost bed time, so I'll just check my e-mail, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and watch a season of my favorite show on Netflix real quick.

It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil.

Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.

I'm obsessed with frozen yogurt because you don't feel totally guilty eating it. It's not as bad as ice cream, and during the hot summer months, it's a great way to just refresh.

His voice is dark chocolate on a hot summer night.

Power is always dangerous. It attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

People sell their soul in such small quantities - a seemingly trivial compromise here, a rationalization of a minor evil there - that they don't realize what they're doing until it is too late.

Pondering over your actions is a practical way of helping yourself in the battle against sin.

I was an altar boy, a spokesperson for the Virgin Mary, I was a choir boy but then at the age of 14 I discovered masturbation and all that went out the window.

At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound.

Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away from those books.

The fact is, there's no such thing as "The Age of Abstinence."

I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.

Cigarettes and chocolate milk shakes are two amazing things.

There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed.

Lust, Greed, Anger, Attachment - These are all paths to hell.