Quotes About Temptation

'The Bone Season' is violent. There's sex. My little brother keeps asking to read it, and he's 9, so I'm like, 'No, it's not happening.'

Virginity can be lost by a thought.

It was every day on the horses and every single race. I was betting on anything; horses, dogs, virtual racing, roulette.

Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.

In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.

Every child is innocent because it has not been tempted, but only when we have been tempted and have remained pure, or when we have fallen, repented and reformed, are we virtuous.

I would inevitably get the girls who were interested in me because I was the guy from E.T. It was kind of tough. I can't deny ever capitalizing upon it but on the whole in my teens I was pretty virtuous.

I'm not exactly certain what got into me, besides him.

Tall, dark, and handsome, well built, easily topping six feet. Gorgeous. A bone-melting smile. Pearly whites. But of course he had perfect teeth. Oh crap. She was a sucker for tall, dark, and dashing.

Dear Lord, had he seen her cheetah-print panties?