Quotes About Tempting

That book is filthy. Wicked. Dangerous. Yet it feels so comforting to own it.

Don't go to the circus.

It's delicious like my favorite treat! It's definitely good to eat!

On a cold night, it's tempting to curl up by the fireside with a good mystery—and rather more pleasurable than indulging in endless online shopping.

Her breath is like honey spiced with cloves, Her mouth delicious as a ripened mango.

If it were easy to resist, it would not be called chocolate cake.

Behind every temptation is a divine reward in resisting it; behind every divine opportunity is a reward in taking advantage of it.

He concealed his own misery, that he might draw them into the like: thus he still deceives sinners into their own ruin.

these days, we are constantly dealing with strangers who know nothing of our identity, qualities and defects, so it is tempting, and sometimes useful, to broadcast as ostentatiously as possible the image of ourselves that we would like to see recognized by those around us.

The dangerous undertone that she'd heard in his voice earlier was nowhere to be heard now, but what was there instead—raw honesty—was even more tempting.

The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.

Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.

Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.

Satan does not tempt us to do wrong things; he tempts us in order to make us lose what God has put into us by regeneration, viz., the possibility of being of value to God. He does not come on the line of tempting us to sin, but on the line of shifting the point of view, and only the Spirit of God can detect this as a temptation of the devil.

I've got to get you home before I lose all my sanity and give in to the urge to imprison you here as a sex slave for my evil desires." Jesse sighed heavily. "That does sound tempting, but I'm pretty sure that Aunt Will would miss me." "She probably would," Piney agreed. "And how could I explain to my son why I've got a woman locked up in my bedroom?

It is tempting to believe that our conscience can be tapped to deliver universal moral truths, and that as long as we heed our conscience, our choice will indeed be the morally right choice. The uncomfortable fact that has to be reckoned with, however, is this: conscientious people frequently differ on what their conscience bids them do, and hence differ in their choices.

The great trick of the devil is to make you want to see him. But it is only when you see him that you fear him. And by then, it is too late.

empathy is a negative in human affairs. It's not cholesterol. It's sugary soda, tempting and delicious and bad for us.

These apricots and these peaches make me and to come water in the mouth.

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.