Quotes About Temptation

I seduce you into forgiving me.

Digging into the pancakes in the interim, Sarah moaned. "These are so good." Abe stared at her mouth. "Stop making those sounds or you won't get to finish the stack.

You," he said quietly, no longer able to lie. "You tempt me.

I was seduced by her beauty, my Lady. I was weak and she took advantage." "You are a fool.

Pinetta was a hotbed of snakes and storms and sandspurs and sexual longing.

you cannot shake hands with the Devil and not get sulphur on your sleeve.

dig your grave with your knife and fork.

Was he he handsome?" she asked with a sly smirk. "Very. He is still, I think." "The devil, they say, goes about in finery." "And if you believe Beelzebub is as cunning as he is attractive, then I think we have found him.

lightning! Mephistopheles and Beelzebub!

I must think about something else for a while. But then I remember his warn arms and his big strong legs touching mine and how hard and wide his chest was and how hot his kiss was, and I got outside and feed the chickens. They are getting mighty fat.

Men are linear creatures, led by their lusts. You only have to give them an excuse to act on what they already want to do.

Taking and eating what was prohibited by God led to judgment for Adam and Eve, but taking and eating of God's provision of Christ leads to salvation for all who will feast on the fruit of the cross of Christ.

Sweetly, he cupped her cheek and very slowly and deliberately pushed down the bodice of her blouse just a little. She laughed. They kissed. Kissed harder. The warmth between them heated, then blazed—the greatest gift of the Goddess—as Holgar tore off her clothes and—

to a viewpoint that was contrary to God's word put Eve on a slippery slope that led to disobedience

It feels like cheap sex and spurious art to me, the spiritual equivalent of junk food; it may look like an éclair, but it's really a Twinkie.

And though she loves nothing more than the sight of her handsome prince, his wife sometimes dreams about that unknown lover, and, on such occasions, he comes to her. Even now, this very evening, the prince is waiting outside her bedchamber door until it is fully dark, when he will slip quietly in...

But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols—if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our lives.

We sin because we want something in the created world more than we want the Creator.

The mainspring of sin is not that we have bodies but that we put things besides God at the center of our lives and turn them into idols.

The DEVIL we are fear is only one but appear in different forms.

It is hard now, very hard, but the difficulty is familiar. Her body wants something, and she is denying it.

Look, do you know what I need right now?" "What?" I put my hand at that place at the back of his neck where his hair is short, soft bristles and pulled him toward me. And because it was easy, I guess, or familiar or just because it put an end to the awkwardness, he kissed me back. He smelled exactly like I remembered, maybe even better. And we fell to doing other easy, familiar, forbidden things.

You would see good in the face of Satan himself if he arrived at your door with a pitiful story and a hungry belly." "And would I be wrong to do so? If Satan needed feeding?

It is hard now, very hard, but the difficulty is familiar. Her body wants something, and she is denying