Quotes About Temptation

When our heart wants to live in purity & do the right thing, God will keep us from falling into sin.

If the devil cannot get you by SIN, he will seek to get you by IGNORANCE.

Perhaps to bring good into the world, she needed to mix a little evil in it first.

The moment somebody says to me "This is very risky " is the moment it becomes attractive to me.

Sin leads to physical death in the spirit.

The pain of patience is better the pleasure of sin.

All the pleasure of sin cannot be compared to the satisfaction with sweetness of life in the spirit.

Never exchange the word of God for any wealth.

Smelling the strong coffee and that sausage , and watching the potatoes as they turned crispy golden brown in the butter, made me hungrier than I'd been in months, and when the cheese began oozing out the sides of the puffy omelette, I really wondered for a minute how much longer I could keep torturing myself like this.

Contemplative prayer is a method of exposing and disengaging from the ordinary obstacles to our awareness of God's presence with us. This prayer is not an end, but a beginning. It's easy to give in to the temptation to chase after the enemy every time he shows himself; sometimes it's the right thing to do. There is a better way to defeat him—fix our eyes and our hearts steadfastly on Jesus. His light will drive out the darkness.

'Twill make old women young and fresh, Create new motions of the flesh. And cause them long for you know what, If they but taste of chocolate.

Government requires motion, perhaps even more than wisdom. And there is a constant temptation to depend on those who know how to keep it moving, rather than demanding that it stay on any particular course.

Like punch through the brick wall he'd built around himself and give in to the sudden, desperate urges to touch, to taste, to feel. Krista Fucking Slater. Of all the women in the world, why was she the only one who managed to remind him he was still alive in a way no one had been able to in three long years?

He asks me if I'd like to see the apartment and I say 'Anytime,' and he says, 'Sure, why don't you come up now, then?' I can't think of a reason not to. There's nothing waiting for me at home but my refrigerator, my laptop, and death.

Not ever was there a time when that man's penis stayed put where it was supposed to be, instead living its life as a free-flying dilettante, a party penis, as if it were some sort of rich-kid celebrity DJ hitting new hot spots, London, Paris, Ibiza, except instead of those cities it would be a paralegal's vagina instead.

She opened the McRib box and eyed the dark red, sticky sandwich. Suddenly she felt like an animal; she wanted to drag the sandwich somewhere, not anywhere in this McDonald's, not a booth, not Playland, but to a park, a shrouded corner of the woods underneath shimmering tree branches, green, dark, and serene, and then, when she was certain she was completely alone, she wanted to tear that sandwich apart with her teeth.

I fear I am forbidden fruit," he sighed into her hair. Her hands grasped him in answer. "I would know such fruit. For always." "Oh, sweetness, you know not what you are saying. It can be so dark here, with me." "I'm not afraid." Even as he gave up and kissed her, he murmured a warning. "You should be. You should be.

If you are a human being, it's in your DNA to want bacon.

where wine enters, smartness goes away...

Everything is permitted in a fight with the devil.

For one thing, telling a lie is like eating peanuts. One leads to another. In no time at all, you've gone through a bagful." He rinsed the razor under the tap. "Worst of all, you become a slave to something that isn't real.

I've forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, of course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and prosecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again.

To roughly paraphrase Paul, why do I do what I don't want to do and don't do what I want to do?

I jumped right to the heart of the matter and preached the taproot of sin, which is found in the middle of the word, itself—I! I want this, I want that, and I want it right now. I want to run things, I want to call the shots, I want be in charge. . .