Quotes About Temptation

As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored.

Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.

The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.

At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.

Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.

Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.

Bad guys do what good guys dream.

None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.

moral vanity is the snare of good people.

Two voices struggled inside me. One that wanted to be good and brave, and one that told the good one to keep her mouth shut.

There is good and evil in each of us, and you can easily be led to the dark side.

Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.

Everybody has an instinctive desire to do good things and avoid evil. But that desire is sterile as long as we have no experience of what it means to be good.

All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.

When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.

I'll be a good boy, please make me well. I promise you anything, get me out of this hell. Cold turkey has got me on the run.

With bad girls, you can't go as many places as you can with a good girl. But, it is fun to play the bad girl because you always get the better wardrobe!

You looking good." "Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.

The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won't I? in pitiful indecision.

Beer. It always seems like such a good idea at the time, doesn't it? What's worse is beer seems like an even better idea after you've had some beer.

All good hotels tend to lead people to do things they wouldn't necessarily do at home.

Funny, when i was a little boy I wanted to be good. But I could never seem to manage it somehow. And if you're not good, the good people will throw you to the wolves. So you might as well just be bad

What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture 'tis to flee it.

Is it truly being good if the only reason I behave well is so I can get more loot at Christmas? I mean, really, all I'm doing is saying I can be bribed.