Quotes About Temptation

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.

Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them.

Unclean spirits increase the passions in us, making use of our negligence, and inciting them. But the angels decrease our passions, inciting us to the perfection of virtue.

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones.

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.

Let my temptation be a book.

When reason fails, the devil helps!

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

Evil exists in us all, Torak. Some fight it. Some feed it. That's how it's always been.

"Exercise" is such a dirty word in my household that whenever I even think of it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate.

If someone falls into any sin and is not sincerely grieved about it, it is easy for him to fall into the same thing again.

A man who is enticed by sinful thoughts is blinded by them, and he sees the action of sin in himself, but he can not see the cause of this action.

The devil makes small sins seem smaller in our eyes, for otherwise he can't lead us to greater evil.

If an unexpected temptation comes, don't blame the one through whom it came, but seek out the reason. Thus you will find correction for your soul.

Outside of these doors, it is the real world. Someone tries to get you to do something wrong, run.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

When the line between right and wrong slowly dims, all that's wrong will be divinely delicious, and ruthlessly fought for!

It is better to seek purity than the pleasure of sin.