Quotes About Temptation

We are easily seduced. It's magic lures us, and we are it's willing victims.

He could silence the devil with a whisper.

Because power, I had learned, could be just as seductive as a warm loaf of bread.

There were many beautiful vipers in those days and she was one of them. ("Eveline's Visitant")

He was beginning to see her as a locked garden that he could sneak into and sit in for days, tearing the heads off the flowers.

"Will you walk into my parlor?" said the Spider to the Fly;" 'Tis the prettiest little parlor that ever you did spy."

Will you walk into my parlour?" said the Spider to the Fly

And now dear little children, who may this story read, To idle, silly flattering words, I pray you ne'er give heed: Unto an evil counsellor, close heart and ear and eye, And take a lesson from this tale, of the Spider and the Fly.

I'm sure you must be weary, dear, with soaring up so high; Will you rest upon my little bed?" said the Spider to the Fly. "There are pretty curtains drawn around; the sheets are fine and thin, And if you like to rest awhile, I'll snugly tuck you in!" Oh no, no," said the little Fly, "for I've often heard it said, They never, never wake again, who sleep upon your bed!

Oh no, no," said the little fly; "to ask me is in vain, For who goes up your winding stair can ne'er come down again.

I won't bite." "Are you sure?" My voice was rough. "I won't bite right now," he said with a ghost of a smile. The soft expression bemused me enough so that the gentle patting lured me to the recliner. Logan wrapped strong arms around me and pulled me into his lap. My butt fit him like we were interlocking puzzle pieces.

connected?" I licked again, a broad swipe. "Your fangs and your cock, I mean? They're both long

Hoarding and wasting kept them out of Heaven And brought them to this barroom brawl; I won't try to prettify it with words.

and with the deftness of a thief, he was picking the lock of her willpower.

I Don't Know whether lust is a human coarseness or a human fineness: I don't know why death holds a so sweet lure since it would take away my Body: I don't know that I wouldn't deny my Christ, if I had one, three times before a given cockcrow: I don't know on the other hand that I would: I don't know whether honor is a reality in human beings or a pose: I don't know that I mayn't be able to think with my Body when it is in its coffin.

Some day the Devil will come to me and say: 'Come with me.' And I will answer: 'Yes.

the neurotic torture of being seductive regularly—by the night: the more that perchance the struggle always is unconscious.

From insipid sweet wine; from men who wear moustaches; from the sort of people that call legs 'limbs'; from bedraggled white petticoats: Kind Devil, deliver me.

An idle brain is the Devil's workshop, they say. It is an absurdly incongruous statement. If the Devil is at work in a rain it certainly is not idle.

He was a thoroughly bad hat, then, but that was the kind, of course, that nice women broke their hearts over.

you'll get into this morbid state when you think if you want something, then you shouldn't have it.

temptation, that in itself it is nothing but an opportunity for choice; so it is rather defeatist to feel very guilty about it, as though one were half ready to commit the sin.

I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house.

Fix, by God's help, not only to root out this sin, but to set thyself to gain, by that same help, the opposite grace. If thou art tempted to be angry, try hard, by God's grace, to be very meek; if to be proud, seek to be very humble. E. B. PUSEY.