Quotes About Temptation

If thou least fallen into sin through violent temptations, seek speedily for repentance for it, recovery out of it, and reformation from it.

No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil not that he practices it but he suffers from it.

In seasons of distress and grief My soul has often found relief And oft escaped the tempter's snare By thy return sweet hour of prayer.

In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

You can be the happiest you can be in a relationship but can have an urge to be with someone else. I know a lot of people that it has happened to.

If the desires are not controlled now, later they will control you.

I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn't necessarily believe in.

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To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.

Avoid popularity it has many snares and no real benefit.

God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.

No, I tend to see possession most often in the little things, Damien: in the senseless, petty spites and misunderstandings; the cruel and cutting word that leaps unbidden to the tongue between friends. Between lovers. Between husbands and wives. Enough of these and we have no need of Satan to manage our wars; these we manage for ourselves.

Well, the Devil's something else. I could buy that; in fact, maybe I do. You know why? Because the creep keeps doing commercials.

She watched as a beer truck lumbered by with a clink of quivering warm, wet promises.

No, I tend to see possession most often in the little things, Damien: in the senseless, petty spites and misunderstandings; the cruel and cutting word that leaps unbidden to the tongue between friends. Between lovers. Between husbands and wives. Enough of these and we have no need of Satan to manage our wars; these we manage for ourselves … for ourselves.

Não, costumo vez a possessão nas coisas, Damien. Nas picuinhas e nos desentendimentos; na palavra cruel e cortante que salta livre à língua entre amigos. Entre namorados. Entre marido e mulher. Temos muito disso e não precisamos de Satanás para criar nossas guerras. Conseguimos criá-las sozinhos... Sozinhos.

Do you hunger, Saint Merrin? Here, I give you both nectar and ambrosia, I give to you the daily bread of your God!" croaked the demon mockingly as Regan excreted diarrhetically. "For this is my body! Now consecrate that, Saint Merrin!

The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us; but

two chief pitfalls into which the mystic is liable to fall--dreamy inactivity and Antinomianism.

You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.

Who can cloy the hungry edge of appetite?

Gold is worse poison to a man's soul, doing more murders in this loathsome world, than any mortal drug.

The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger.