Quotes About Temptation

Some folks, he said, seem to want to seek out the things that destroy them. Called an achimist, a fancy word, but a true one.

Why, oh why had he taken up Debbie's offer of a free personal training session, and today of all days? There was no way he was going to get ripped abs by this evening, and the muscles he suspected he'd torn in his lower back were hardly the same thing.

That desperate tug-of-war between the desire to persevere and the overwhelming temptation to quit. And he loved it.

Your cable television is experiencing difficulties. Please do not panic. Resist the temptation to read or talk to loved ones. Do not attempt sexual relations, as years of TV radiation have left your genitals withered and useless.

Blood doesn't satisfy cravings. It magnifies them.

Where there were books, there was always the temptation to open them.

The craving for the thing is rarely met by the satisfaction of getting it. And so we crave more. And the cycle repeats. We are encouraged to want what will only make us want more. We are, in short, encouraged to be addicts.

But where there were books, there was always the temptation to open them.

Surely anyone who has ever had a smartphone or a Twitter account can relate to such compulsive behavior. Check, check, check, and once more, just to see. When the ability to check something turns into the compulsion to do so, we often find ourselves craving the time before, when there was no ability to check in the first place.

If beauty on Earth is the same as elsewhere: ideal in that it is tantalizing and unsolvable, creating a delicious kind of confusion.

I have learned that however strong the craving gets the guilt afterwards will be stronger.

where there were books, there was always the temptation to open them. And she realised it was the same with lives.

An increased sexual imagination. (Fear of death often seems to counterbalance itself with thoughts of sex.)

But where there were books, there was always the temptation to open them. And she realised it was the same with lives.

glanced over my shoulder and saw the lady was giving away samples." Ask yourself: - How did it feel? - How did it taste? - What did it look like? - What did it sound like? - What did it smell like?

The notion of "long-term greedy" vanished into thin air as the game became about getting your check before the melon hit the pavement.

for those that would be kept from any sin must be careful to avoid all temptations to it, and every thing that looks towards it or leads to it.

Those that have so much power over others as to be able to oppress them have seldom so much power over themselves as not to oppress; great might is a very great snare to many.

The children of disobedience are such as choose to disobey God, and to serve the devil;

He concealed his own misery, that he might draw them into the like: thus he still deceives sinners into their own ruin.

The carnal mind makes a man a perfect slave to his vicious appetite.

By having fellowship with sin, which is abominable, we make ourselves abominable.

Uno absurdo dato, mille sequuntur – Admit but a single absurdity, you invite a thousand. The way of sin is downhill.

Those that in good earnest set their faces heaven-ward, and will live godly in Christ Jesus, must expect to be set upon by Satan's temptations and terrors.