Quotes About Temptation

Dennis Wheatley

What you're doing is wrong," he said. "I mean evil. To give up happiness like this is like throwing jewels into the ocean. It's far worse than any sin.

Philip couldn't fornicate if you put him in a barrel with three whores.

If God could not forgive lascivious priests, there would be very few clergy in heaven.

me inclino siempre del lado de quienes afrontan la tentación cayendo en ella.

She could have had an affair with him. He was a devout Muslim, as were all the guerrillas, but she doubted whether that would have made any difference. She believed what her father had used to say: Religious conviction may thwart a timid desire but nothing can stand against genuine lust.

The ducks swallow the worms, and the foxes kill the ducks, and the men shoot the foxes, and the devil hunts the men.

To give up happiness like this is like throwing jewels into the ocean. It's far worse than any sin.

Si es pecado codiciar el honor, soy el mayor de todos los pecadores».

Desfrânat?? întreb? ea, tare. Dar tu? C?lug?rii aceÈ™tia nu È™tiu c? e nevoie de doi oameni ca s? comiÈ›i preacurvie?

El orgullo excesivo es un pecado corriente, pero que un hombre puede, con la misma facilidad, frustrar la voluntad de Dios por una excesiva humildad.

My father hated people who preached about morality. We're all good when it suits us, he used to say: that doesn't count. It's when you want so badly to do something wrong - when you're about to make a fortune from a dishonest deal, or kiss the lovely lips of your neighbor's wife, or tell a lie to get yourself out of terrible trouble - that's when you need the rules.

My father hated people who preached about morality. We're all good when it suits us, he used to say: that doesn't count. It's when you want so badly to do something wrong—when you're about to make a fortune from a dishonest deal, or kiss the lovely lips of your neighbor's wife, or tell a lie to get yourself out of terrible trouble—that's when you need the rules. Your integrity is like a sword, he would say: you shouldn't wave it until you're about to put it to the test.

He who sups with the devil must use a long spoon.

And consummated there a month of quick looks, guarded smiles, accidental brushings of body too open or too secret to be mere accident, and all the other little unfinished vignettes of desire . . . and, perhaps most of all, consummated the shared knowledge of that desire

She slides through the door with a gust of cold and locks the door behind her and I see her fingers trail across the polished steel—tip of each finger the same color as her lips. Funny orange. Like the tip of a soldering iron. Color so hot or so cold if she touches you with it you can't tell which.

I mean, the more a man was in the Devil's power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle that a man is still fairly sober as long as he knows he's drunk.

It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.

He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.

Satan has no power over us except as we give it to him. God never forces us to do right, and Satan has no power to force us to do wrong.

The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

The trouble with dieting is that a pound of will power takes off only an ounce of weight.

If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.

If you will study the scriptures diligently, your power to avoid temptation and to receive direction of the Holy Ghost in all you do will be increased.