Quotes About Temptation

Penso che da giovani si combatte per sconfiggere i peccati capitali senza sapere che nell'età adulta non saranno le virtù a neutralizzarli, bensì i peccati stessi. Per esempio, a lungo andare la gola prende il sopravvento sulla vanità e l'ignavia sulla lussuria.

don't fly too close to the sun," Tess Calls. "you'll burn the tips of your wings. Stay right with me. i'll keep you safe.

Oh, that's lovely wrist action you've got there. Fancy coming into the larder with me and earning yourself five woodbines?

Qué le ha pasado al pecado? Ya no está incluido en el índice de temas importantes a tratar. Aparentemente ahora hay otras cuestiones más relevantes y más convenientes: prosperidad, estrategias de «iglecrecimiento», declaración positiva, autoestima, múltiples seminarios sobre diversos temas, pero poco acerca de la santidad y de vivir apartado del pecado.

In doing nothing men learn to do evil.

Just drop your jeans and gimme those genes.

You don't even like smoking them. You just like thinking about smoking them.

Even Christ hadn't been able to sell salvation to contented sinners.

she was so small, you couldn't help but imagine what she looked like naked." -- Brilliance, 2013

I could walk out of here Chuck Bukowski.

Er zijn noodzakelijke en minder noodzakelijke zonden.

For centuries censorship has created best sellers because, as Michel de Montaigne said, 'To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.' (Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature)

He was not condemned to death, freedom awaited him. What was the temptation, the one that worked? Perhaps he wanted to live with a woman whose life he had saved, who had seen down into the earth but had nevertheless followed him back up to life. It was his only chance to be a hero, to one person at least, for if he became the hangman the others would despise him. He was in prison for wounding another man, on one finger of the right hand, with a sword. This too is history.

Nella vita capita di rinunciare alle persone migliori a favore di altre che non ci interessano, che non ci fanno del bene, semplicemente ci capitano tra i passi, ci corrompono con le loro menzogne e ci abituano a diventare conigli.

Chintesen?a celei mai dulci am?giri, nu este iubirea? Un pumn de zah?r care-?i schimb? moleculele, se umfl? ?i ne ademene?te, apoi în contact cu cavitatea cald? a membrelor dispare ca iluzoria substan?? a viselor.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

Politicians should resist the temptation to consider themselves experts in fields where they have no experience.

Certain women because of their female power and seductiveness could bring destruction to a family.

I know essentially you're some kind of enchantress. Maybe you're still serving your apprenticeship, but you're an enchantress all right. Probably I'd get used to you in time. Right now, it's only my demonic will that's keeping me playing it mighty cool.

So it goes when we need to couple. Sex makes idiots of us all. ~ From "Am I Pretty Enough

Snow lies on my fields though the air is so warm I want to roll on my back and wriggle. Sure, the dark downhill weep shows who's winning, and the thatch of tall grass is sticking out of the banks, but I want to start digging and planting. My swelling hills, my leafbrown loamy soil interlaced with worms red as mouths, my garden, why don't you hurry up and take your clothes off ?

It's pitch, sex is. Once you touch it, it clings to you.

Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear.

Do you know," he said, "that there are people who can't go near high places not because they're afraid of heights but because they feel such a lure to jump?