Quotes About Temptation

I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.

A great book is like great evil.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.

One of the great things about Ben & Jerry's for me is that not only is it delicious, but I get it for free.

I'm an impulse buyer. There are so many great things online! Having two kids, I feel like that's an easy, fun way to shop without letting it take up your entire day.

If a great comedy landed on my doorstep, I would find it hard to say no.

Football and gambling - two great American addictions working together. What could possibly go wrong?

When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach to near and gaze on it in shop windows.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.

If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness.

People argue themselves out of their pleasures

Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.

Drugs bring us to to the gates of paradise, then keep us from entering.

When she absently worried her bottom lip with one of her adorable little fangs, he s

Adam and Eve ate the first vitamins, including the package.

Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.

When we rise above our temptations and resist them, we exercise self-control. And that's when we experience true freedom and emotional health.

My temptation is emotional, and resisting will further my needed weight loss and strengthen my character. Furthermore, nothing tastes as good as thin feels.

I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-stripes.

Heaven help me for the way I am, save me from these evil deeds before I get them done.

Now, have I ever been tempted to break into a Krispy Kreme doughnut store in the middle of the night? Oh, yeah. God help us if I had a mini-bar stocked with cheesecake and chicken-fried steak.