Quotes About Temptation

How about a drop of something to cut the phlegm? Why don't you stay sober today? We didn't come to New York to stay sober.

I hope they don't hang you, precious, by that sweet neck. Yes, angel, I'm gonna send you over. The chances are you'll get off with life. That means if you're a good girl, you'll be out in 20 years. I'll be waiting for you. If they hang you, I'll always remember you. (Sam Spade to Brigid O'Shaughnessy)

What do people think about my staying with Harrison with him chasing everything that's hot and hollow?

In many instances, however, I would expect such instances of discomfort to draw our attention to the ways in which we have drunk deep from Babylon's cup and are tempted to remain in our stupor.

One of the greatest ironies of the history of Christianity is that its leaders constantly gave in to the temptation of power—political power, military power, economic power, or moral and spiritual power—even though they continued to speak in the name of Jesus, who did not cling to his divine power but emptied himself and became as we are.

The season of evil, I echoed. Protect your soul.

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Once the decision is out of your hands, there's no way you can be tempted into doing the wrong thing.

In some ways, it was far easier to be bad than good. When you're bad, you don't care what happens to anyone other than yourself. When you're trying to do god, you have to worry about everyone.

If Jackson had learned one thing over the years it was that nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved, because, in truth, most people were not above the lure of the dollar or other material entitlements.

You think I haven't tried to quit?

never pick up a cigarette.

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As was Israel, so Jesus is tempted by hunger (Exod 16:1–8), tempted to worship something other than God (Exod 32), and tempted to put God to the test (Exod 17:1–3).

When you behold the face of pure evil, it will be beautiful.

Be on guard. The road widens, and many of the detours are seductive.

Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.

I think it's easy to stop smoking; it's just hard not to commit a felony after you stop.

This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death.

Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving?

Kid, sobriety's like a hard-on; the minute you get it, you want to fuck with it.

something is malignantly addictive if (1) it causes real problems for the addict, and (2) it offers itself as a relief from the very problems it causes.

Nobody who's ever gotten sufficiently addictively enslaved by a Substance to need to quit the Substance and has successfully quit it for a while and been straight and but then has for whatever reason gone back and picked up the Substance again has ever reported being glad that they did it, used the Substance again and gotten re-enslaved; not ever.

How to keep the seductive ghost of bliss long absconded from baiting you and hooking you and pulling you back out and eating your heart raw and (if you're lucky) eliminating your map for good.