Quotes About Temptation

When Peter would prove himself no disciple of Christ, he cursed and swore.

We must never be drawn into sin by any thing that man can say or do to us, for it will not justify us to say that we were so drawn in.

Those that would be kept from bad courses must keep from bad company; it is dangerous living in a bad neighbourhood; others' sins will be our snares, if we look not well to ourselves.

God proportions his people's trials to their strength, and will not suffer them to be tempted above what they are able, 1 Cor. 10:13.

What is resistance? It's that sluggish feeling of not wanting to do something that you know is good for you, it's the inclination to do something that you unabashedly know is not good for you, and it's everything in between. It's the desire and tendency to delay something you should be doing right now.

Ya que tales hombres viven como si no tuvieran que rendirle servicio a Dios, ni buscando a Cristo, como si no tuviesen que mortificar las pasiones carnales, sin negar el yo, ni creyendo en la Escritura, que no piensan en el día del juicio, ni que el infierno tiene que ser temido, que no desean el cielo, sin valorar su alma; pero se entregan a una sensualidad peor que salvaje, "para cometer con avidez toda clase de impureza,"[43] viviendo sin Dios en el mundo.

There was still the temptation to believe the world was a mere trap for human sin. But sin, the way he saw it, was only the failure of an imperfectly made being to keep a perfect law.

Being old enough to know better but still too young to resist mostly sucks.

This is why he urges Haida, despite the banality of the world around him, to live fully and find meaning in that process where he can. Midorikawa is not Mephistopheles tempting Haida with a choice, but an arhat acting out of an abundance of compassion; his purpose—to judge from the results—is to awaken Haida to his own special ability.

Para el enamorado, una mujer bella es un objeto de deseo; para el eremita, una distracción; y para el lobo, un buen bocado.

A lawful kiss is never worth a stolen one.

How was she to endure knowing he was in town these next two weeks, without throwing herself into his arms again? She would hide in her home and not come out until the day of the wedding. Yes, that was the only solution.

A man who would agree to betray his own conscience for the sake of a mitre, might well also steal and betray.

En bon Italien, Guccio pensa que la chose serait plaisante de séduire à la fois et la fille et la mère.

On lui donnait le moyen de se sauver seul. Tout homme sensé, à qui l'on fait une proposition de cette sorte, la considère, et n'en a que plus de mérite lorsqu'il la repousse. (Le roi de fer, partie 3, ch. 6, p. 322)

There is a sort of maleficence in history: it solicits men, tempts them so that they believe they are moving in its direction, and then suddenly it unmasks, and events change and prove that there was another possibility. The men whom history abandons in this way and who see themselves simply as accomplices suddenly find themselves the instigators of a crime to which history has inspired them. And they are unable to look for excuses or to excuse themselves from even a part of the responsibility.

It was one thing to invite a married man into your bed – and quite another to invite him to help you with the gardening.

Since the days of Bluebeard the Best way of getting a man to do a thing is to tell him not to do it

So, we eat again. Well, perhaps the relationship wouldn't go anywhere, but I would certainly put on a few pounds.

poppy in wine.

Impulsive enjoyment of life, which leads away both from work in a calling and from religion, was as such the enemy of rational asceticism, whether in the form of seigneurial sports, or the enjoyment of the dance-hall or the public—house of the common man. 

Wealth is thus bad ethically only in so far as it is a temptation to idleness and sinful enjoyment of life, and its acquisition is bad only when it is with the purpose of later living merrily and without care. But

I'm tempted to shove one of my romance novels up your ass"- P.J. said sharply "But I love my books too much to desecrate them like that. I'll settle for my boot.

I'm thinking," he said. To bed or not to bed his wife? That was the question.