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Quotes About Temptation

When playing either quarter pitch or spinners, you can go through a case of beer in twenty minutes. It's fun and it's deadly.
~ Mary Brave Bird
And he'd have to track them down if he wanted something to do besides go charging back into the house and kissing Molly again. Right in front of her brother this time. Oh, there was an idea fit to get a man shot.
~ Mary Connealy
care to explain, so he turned her into his arms and kissed her. When he pulled away, her eyes blinked open as if her lids were almost too heavy to hold up. "You really shouldn't kiss me like that, Rafe. I swear when you do it, I can't seem to think clearly." "Why don't you just relax and let me do the thinking for the both of us for a while?
~ Mary Connealy
Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be.
~ Joni Mitchell
Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.
~ Unknown
If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
~ Samuel Johnson
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.
~ Unknown
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. [Proverbs 9:17]
~ Bible
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet
~ Unknown
Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Forget love... I'd rather fall in chocolate.
~ Anonymous
Money can't buy you love, but it can get you some really good chocolate ginger biscuits.
~ Dylan Moran
Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
~ Paulo Coelho
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.
~ George Jean Nathan
The most dangerous food is wedding cake
~ James Thurber
My eyes are tempted by the smile of an angel, and your lips whisper secrets of forbidden love.
~ Unknown
Rylan put one hand gently over her mouth. "Yes, all that and more. That's all because I was trying not to do this." He pulled her into his arms and kissed the living daylights out of her.
~ Mary Connealy
The devil is who torments good folks in the night. He whispers doubt in your ear. He stirs up anger. He picks at any little mistake you've made, or thinks you've made, and blows it up big. That's Satan, stirring and stirring trouble, like a pot he's trying to boil over, hoping he can spill sin through your soul and slop it all over the people around you.
~ Mary Connealy
By this these Angels from an evil sprite, Those set our hairs, but these our flesh upright. Licence
~ Unknown
you'll get chocolate all over the
~ Unknown
You know, I've always thought it was a tactical mistake for God to love us in the aggregate, when Satan is willing to make a special effort to seduce each of us separately.
~ Mary Doria Russell
For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need" (4:15–16 NASB).
~ Mary E. DeMuth