Quotes About Temptation

A man has to believe in something, and I believe I'll have another drink.

While I was now fairly demoralized, as well as aflame with the prospect of an hour in his daughter's arms, the thought of using his car to debauch his bourgeois paradise was a perfidy at which I drew the line.

Anyone who hangs out on social media at all knows how effortlessly it can bring out the worst in us. Not me, of course, but everyone else. I'm an angel.

It's not a god he worships, it's the devil.

It helped that any sexual impulse he might have felt was effectively neutralized by her drinking. After the first hour of any evening, she was not a pleasant person to be around.

He'd never made a move on her in those three weeks.

One addiction laid you open to others in a fast downward spiral.

The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it.

The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself to feel. For this we walk a narrow path high above rocky ground. On one side we have the descent into animalism, on the other a godhead delusion. Both pulling at us, both tempting. But without these forces tugging at your psyche, stirring it into conflict, you can never love. They awaken us, you see, these warring sides, they arouse our passion.

read, and his last book was Balzac's mysterious tale of the magical shrinking skin, La Peau de chagrin.

The cookies combine butter and spices in such a way that you could eat a hundred of them and only realize how sick you are after it's too late.

Well, I think that's sort of like Eve biting the apple. You were talking about Genesis. I think it's like that, the crow is like the serpent. He is giving the horse the awareness of choice. And with a full knowledge of choice comes a foreknowledge of death.

Satan's extortion is powerless without the addiction to a good public name.

Satan took Jesus to the top of the temple and said, "Let's run a little test. Throw yourself down, and we will see if Scripture is true, if Angel's will come and bear you up." And Jesus said, "Thou shalt not put the Lord your God to the test!" (see Luke 4:9-12). This last century argued that the only things you CAN believe are things you can put to the test. And Satan smiles, for that means we cannot believe in God, who is truth.

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then I realised that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ëYou must not eat from any tree in the garden?í”

The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,

but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, ëYou must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.í”

“You will not surely die,” the serpent told her.

“For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.

“Who told you that you were naked?” asked the LORD God. “Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”

And the man answered, “The woman whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”