Quotes about Temptation
The possibility of evil exists from the moment that a creature is made that can love and do good because it chooses and not because it is unable to do anything else. The actuality of evil exists from the moment that that choice is exercised in the wrong direction.
— Dorothy Sayers
We glory in our wonderful gospel of love and mercy for the unsaved, but we usually act as if we have no gospel for the saint who has been tripped up by the devil!
— Alan Redpath
Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
— Samuel Johnson
I never wanted to just glamorize the playa lifestyle and not touch on the down side. I wanted everyone who's in a desperate situation to know that, if they wanna choose that kinda lifestyle, they gotta be aware of everything that comes with it! It's not just about the cars, the ladies and the money.
— Jay-Z
When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student, but I didn't care. I was getting the high fives and the low fives and the pats on the back. I was cool.
— Ben Carson
The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's always easier to avoid temptation than to resist it.
— Randy Alcorn
I adore dark chocolate.
— Diane von Furstenberg
Men are idol factories.
— John Calvin
In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.
— John Donne
Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.
— John Henry Newman
I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men.
— Paulo Coelho