Quotes About Temptation

It's a basic rule of human nature that the promise of unexpected wealth short-circuits both intelligence and common sense.

To steel yourself against mangoes showed a degree of iciness that was almost inhuman.

A devil is the one who knows what is right but will not do it.

Dance with the Devil and he may make you the king of Hell.

Every man for himself and the Devil for all.

He who steals in order to give to God can only get advice from the devil.

Live in such a way that if the devil happened to come to your way, he would change his direction.

Never put in front of you what you don't want inside you.

The man who steals in order to give to God will only get advice from the devil.

There are two things that corrupt a man: money and women. Working to avoid it is great wisdom.

You know your child is growing up when he starts looking at girls the same way he used to look at dessert.

Your enemy is not the one who harms you, but the one who makes you evil.

Looking down on it from the helicopter, with a bottle of Jack in my left hand, a bag of pills in my right hand, and a blond head bobbing up and doen in my lap, I felt like the king of the world.

Rather than clinging close to the Lord, and resolve by the grace and power of God to do better than those who have fallen, and even to help restore them, they will use anything as an excuse to stop serving God and doing what he requires of them.

Sin corrupts and erodes a person's heart,

3:6). James is not talking about metaphysics, and he is not trying to identify the tempter. He wishes to make us take responsibility and confront temptation. This is not accomplished by blaming God's sovereignty. The

We have no sovereignty over the devil, and we cannot stop him from being the tempter. However, we are responsible to examine our desires, and if they make us susceptible to temptations, we must resist them. We

the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear" (2 Timothy 4:3).

Life has quicksands, life has snares

In my picture of the "Night Café" I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad or commit a crime. So I have tried to express, as it were, the powers of darkness in a low public house

Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.

I look forward to making you feel the same way. It's a most enjoyable sensation, like honey in the bones, and if you were a real woman instead of a repressed little English spinster, you would delight in your ability to make a man feel — aroused.' She backed away from him, feeling a distracted urge to hide herself away from him, as she used to when a child and relatives made a fuss of Alberta because she was much prettier.

O accurst craving for gold!

The descent into Hell is easy