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Quotes About Temptation

God is good but not safe, and the urge for safe art is often a worldly temptation away from goodness.
~ Kenneth Myers
If a man dethrones God in his heart, Satan must ascend to His position.
~ Stephen King, 'Salem's Lot
To eat the forbidden is to disobey the law of God
~ Sunday Adelaja
Forbidden things - my God, I'm drawn to them like a moth to a flame.
~ Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy
We don't live as God intended us to, but we live as the Devil wants us to.
~ Anthony T. Hincks
I promise if you come to my car I won't cuff you unless..." his voice dropped in a sensuous tone, "...that's what you want.
~ Zoe Forward, Hooked On A Witch
Sinning when alone is easy but Worshipping alone is difficult.
~ Dr Paul Gitwaza
Go on, my dear, " urges the snake. "Take one. Hear it? 'Pluck me, ' it's saying. That big, shiny red one. 'Pluck me, pluck me now and pluck me hard.' You know you wan
~ David Mitchell, Ghostwritten
Sadly, it seems that I have the proclivity to create plenty of devils, but most of the time I don't even go looking for angels.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Without the fear of God it is impossible to say 'No' to temptations and evil.
~ Sunday Adelaja
If I were to sit down and count them, how many of my prayers were tainted by the seduction of greed? None, simply because nothing of that sort is a prayer.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
If shaytan has entered into your heart - evil will look beautiful to you and good will seem tiring and exhausting.
~ Nouman Ali Khan
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
~ Voltaire
A bad boy can be very good for a girl.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
Fast food is popular because it's convenient, it's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on the menu.
~ Eric Schlosser
Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.
~ Aristotle
Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's after.
~ Hesiod
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
~ Bertolt Brecht
I don't know about you, but rattlesnake sounds pretty damn good right now.
~ Joe Teti
It's a good thing that dumplings are small because Lee Anne's goodies will make your willpower vanish as you reach for 'just one more'.
~ Roger Mooking
An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
For those of you who like to scarf your popcorn in the sack, the good news is that Newman's Own contains an aphrodisiac.
~ Paul Newman
The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
~ Sophocles, Philoctetes
I'm a would-be rebel. The good girl who'd like to be a bad one.
~ Helen Mirren