Quotes About Temptation

sin is always acting, always conceiving, always seducing and tempting.

When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet, and its waters are for the most part deep when they are still, so ought our contrivances against it to be vigorous at all times and in all conditions, even where there is least suspicion.

So temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.

There is not a day in our lives in which sin does not either defeat us or is defeated, prevails over us or is prevailed over, and it will be like this as long as we live in this world.

4. When a man fighteth against his sin only with arguments from the issue or the punishment due unto it, this is a sign that sin hath taken great possession of the will, and that in the heart there is a superfluity of naughtiness.

for Owen, circumstances—whether amiable or painful—were not an excuse to stop resisting sin.

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.

When we are overtaken with a sin, we sometimes fail to analyze how we fell. This is to our great disadvantage. We repent of the sin, but we do not consider the temptation that was the cause of it.

Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.

Temptation, then, in general, is any thing, state, way, or condition that, upon any account whatsoever, has a force or efficacy to seduce, to draw the mind and heart of a man from its obedience, which God requires of him, into any sin, in any degree of it whatsoever.

A system based on corrupting public figures does not take kindly to public figures who refuse to be corrupted

Cuando se recompensa la codicia humana, ésta se convierte en un poderoso inductor de corrupción.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. —John Ray (1670)

I'm raising jailbait in a valley full of horny soldiers; it is never too early to start drinking.

Mr. Tyler's sexual

Wine giveth the desire but taketh the ability

THE EXCHANGE KEPT LUCAS warm all the way out to the car. He'd jump off a high building before he betrayed Weather, but a little extracurricular flirtation kept the blood circulating; not that all of it went to the brain.

You actually don't need to go out to the porn sites.

Might be worth it. I'm so goddamn horny the crack of dawn ain't safe.

love of money is the root of all evils.' Timothy, six-ten.

You hear some guys might be looking at porn, some guys might be getting their knobs polished by the street girls, that some guys have a little too much cash, that some cocaine's gone astray . . . you hear all that crap. And most of it's crap. Backbiting bullshit.

Hostas were the hot fudge sundaes of the deer world.

pulled the money bag up to the passenger seat. He reached inside the bag, pulled out a banded stack of bills. It was a half inch thick, all hundreds. He riffled the stack with his thumb, put it back in the bag, and attempted to tally the number of

I tried being a vegan for a while, but I couldn't live without cheese." "They have vegan cheese." "No, they don't. They have shredded orange and white sadness that mocks cheese and everything it stands for.