Quotes About Temptation

The holy man can pretend to hate the pleasures of this world, while at the same time he is still praying and begging for similar satisfactions in heaven.

The power of love is so strong; to the point where you want to do something after knowing it won't be good for you.

The will-power of all great leaders is so close to that of the devil himself. But they are still humans at the end of the day.

One of satan's most successful devices is to preoccupy us with "good" things to distract us from the "right" things.

But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more.

Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it. A temptation resisted may become more, not less, fierce.

The line between good and evil runs, not between 'us' and 'them', but down the middle of each of us.

There are temptations to idolatry at every level, and the greater the good the greater the temptation.

expelled from the garden.

People who have been starved of water for a long time will drink anything, even if it is polluted.

Someone who truly understands who he or she is in Christ is further along the road to genuine holiness than someone who, in confusion, anxiously imagines that the new life is the result, rather than the starting-point, of the daily battle with temptation.

The voice of Satan is often hard to recognise precisely because it appears so frequently as the voice of common sense, of prudence, of reason.

But if there had been an earlier "victory," when did it take place? Matthew, Mark, and Luke all supply the answer: at the beginning of Jesus's public career, during his forty-day fast in the desert, when the satan tried to distract him, to persuade him to grasp the right goal by the wrong means, and so to bring him over to his side (Matt. 4:1–11; Mark 1:12–13; Luke 4:1–13).

The Christian churches in general have always been subject to the temptation to use the Bible to annotate the story we want to tell for ourselves, rather than allow the Bible to tell its own story and invite us to join in.

Rereading some of these writers, one is tempted to say that if anyone needed help to struggle against some of the unfortunate things they committed to paper, it was not Paul, but some of his twentieth-century interpreters.

There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.

The fruit in the garden was not about knowledge, but about not knowing, about looking into a face and having no idea whether you should kiss it or strike it. Hell is a thousand such small abysses.

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

He closed his eyes, dropping his forehead against hers. "You'll be the death of me, Elena." She smiled. "You need a little excitement in that boring old life of yours.

But it was the dark hunger in his tone that got to her. Damn kinky vampire had actually liked the knife. Shit .

Honor?" "Yes." "I'm going to do things to you now that a good girl definitely shouldn't let a man do to her.

You want to play? Come find me angel boy.

You said I could pet you as long as I liked." "Didn't say I wouldn't try to fuck you in the middle of the petting." Her eyes snapped up to meet his. "That's feline logic. You're a wolf." "I'm learning from the best.

If I were to splay you out on my desk and thrust my fingers into you right now, I think I'd find different.