Quotes About Temptation

I intend to make you scream for me, Riley.

Perhaps Nesta will take up the blood-drinking habit, too. I certainly believe her threat to rip out my throat. Maybe she'll enjoy the taste.

Forbidden fruit makes a wonderful wine." Vazco gave him a leading look. "But leaves a hell of a headache.

Come closer." His voice was more of a growl than a whisper. Hot.

Facilis descensus averno - The descent into hell is easy

What, " asked Mr Croup, "do you want?""What, " asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?""Dead things, " suggested Mr Vandemar. "Extra teeth.

All stories are ultimately about the fall.

Seductive pull of the forest, an open canvas for trouble.

Choices are exhibited through the notions of free will, temptation challenges them.

The devil tempts us to bring out the worst in us, but the Father tests us to bring out the best in us.

The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour you. We go to the Father of Souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon.

Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages.

It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

Father Lucifer, you never looked so sane.

There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.

Fear is the only way to greet the devil.

None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will.

Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.

Believers have just as much to fear from legalism as from waywardness. The first detracts from the beauty of the message, while the second mars it content.

The Devil doesn't fear austerity but holy obedience.

Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves should fear to seize thee; therefore be double-damned, swear,--thou art honest.

We must never, in any age or circumstance, let fear and the father of fear (Satan himself) divert us from our faith and faithful living.

Your personal values are not just what you espouse. It is how you behave and react in the face of temptation, under pressure, even when you know that no one else would know.