Quotes About Temptation

We drank our tea. The lamplight was warm and the apartment still and snug. At home in bed, in my private abyss of longing, the scenes i dreamed of always began like this: drowsy drunken hour, the two of us alone, scenarios in which invariably she would brush against me as if by chance, or lean coveniently close, cheek touching mine, to point out a passage in a book, opportunities that i would seize, gently but manfully, as exordium to more violent pleasures.

But those sparkling blue shallows- so enticing at first glance- had not yet graded off into depths, so that sometimes I got the disconcerting sensation of wading around in knee-high waters hoping to step into a drop-off, a place deep enough to swim.

And as terrible as this is, I get it. We can't choose what we want and don't want and that's the hard lonely truth. Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it's going to kill us. We can't escape who we are.

Fatal tendency to try to make interesting people good.

But – just when I've managed to harden my heart, he'll turn around and be so sweet. I always fall for it. I don't know why.

aware that Allison's eyes were on him, stepped backwards and began instead to swivel his lower body in an oddly lascivious and adult-looking little dance.

What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can't be trusted —? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?

They understood not only evil, it seemed, but the extravagance of tricks with which evil presents itself as good.

The devil approached the citadel of his heart by stealth, with many zigzags and parallels.

Righteousness is innocence that has been maintained in the presence of temptation.

Satan's greatest feat is to convince us he doesn't exist. He doesn't want us to believe in him, and that makes it easier for him to spread his evil. Lucifer is the Master of Lies.

nobody is perfect. Anyone can backslide, even with the best of intentions. That be what the road to hell is paved with, they say.

It is a true saying of good Archbishop Leighton: 'The way of sin is down hill; a man cannot stop when he would.

Don't think," whispers Satan: he knows that an unconverted heart is like a dishonest businessman's financial records, they will not bear close inspection. "Consider your ways," says the Word of God--stop

We may be very sure that men fall in private long before they fall in public. They are backsliders on their knees long before they backslide openly in the eyes of the world. Like Peter, they first disregard the Lord's warning to watch and pray; and then, like Peter, their strength is gone, and in the hour of temptation they deny their Lord. The world takes notice of their fall, and scoffs loudly. But the world knows nothing of the real reason.

Prayer and temptation, the Bible and meditation, make a true minister of the gospel.

El pecado nos llega, como Judas, con un beso y, como Joab, con una mano extendida y palabras halagadoras.

Without thorough conviction of sin, people may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a little while, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.

Aquellos que el Espíritu atrae a Jesús son los que el Espíritu ha convencido de pecado. Sin una convicción total de pecado, el hombre puede acudir a Jesús y seguirle por un tiempo, pero pronto se apartará y volverá al mundo.

Cada nuevo acto de pecado disminuye el temor y el remordimiento, endurece nuestro corazón, insensibiliza nuestra conciencia e incrementa nuestras inclinaciones perversas.

A Satanás no le importa lo espiritual que sean tus intenciones, siempre y cuando les dejes para mañana.

Bien describió Jeremy Taylor el progreso del pecado en el hombre: "Primero lo asusta, después le resulta placentero, después fácil, y luego deleitoso, luego frecuente, después habitual, y finalmente ¡confirmado! Después el hombre es impenitente, después obstinado, luego resuelve nunca arrepentirse, y finalmente es condenado.

Feliz es aquel creyente que lo comprende y, mientras se regocija en Cristo Jesús, no confía para nada en la carne y, por lo tanto, dice: "Gracias a Dios que nos da la victoria" (1 Co. 15:57); nunca se olvida de estar en guardia y orando para no caer en tentación!

Eve: "Keep your mind off sex" Roake: "Why? It's so happy there.