Hard to say what’s right when all I wanna do is wrong.

I don’t know how often opportunity knocks, but temptations to make foul decisions bang on my door all day long. And smelly decisions make for smelly problems later on. A few little decisions, good or...

Temptation is a test of your relationship, not your self-control.

I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.

This was the first thing Mark had been asked to do which he himself, before he did it, clearly knew to be criminal. But the moment of his consent almost escaped his notice; certainly, there...

Man no longer lives in the beginning–he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the beginning, and yet knowing that he is in the middle,...

The criminalization of debt, then, was the criminalization of the very basis of human society. It cannot be overemphasized that in a small community, everyone normally was both a lender and borrower. One can only...

When I say ‘I will be true to you’ I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No-one can legislate love; it cannot be given orders or cajoled into service. Love...

…I know that if you ask me to jump I will say how high. So I will stay away from you and hope that you never ever say jump.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

‘It’s okay. I understand that you’re tempted and know you shouldn’t grab the apple, and when you did you wanted to drop it. But I’m not good at resisting temptation. I’d rather eat the fucking...

Power was my weakness and my temptation.

Sexual temptations are lurking around every corner in our lives today! Resisting the temptation to gratify the flesh is a full-time job.

Despite the weight of the world on my shoulders, the temptation to stop and smell the supernatural roses tugged on my sleeves a time or two.

I should have shouted “No” and left him. “But at least” said Satan in the deeps of my mind, “know what the temptation is before you do anything hastily.

Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.

He’s unspoiled. We’re all scoundrels, and he’s only pretending to be one. He’s a pure soul.””Yes, until he runs into temptation for the first time.””He’d resist it.”(Moša and Valerija about Tirke)

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you’re actually more and more likely to fail.

But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the...

Galbūt Viešpats suprato, kad žmogaus valia atsispirti pagundai turi ribas

Dismantle your friend to see how he behaves. If he smiles with a beautiful grin, then take him back, he’s worthy to be called a friend.

You’ll make any promise, swear any oath. For one… perfect… unsoiled taste.

Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn’t.

Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me—I spotted something between her legs that made me think of you.

God can make good use of all that happens, but the loss is real.

The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division which rend cities and homes. Jesus and his disciples will be condemned on all sides...

Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their...

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.

While waiting for Brenna to prepare the drink he did as directed and worked through their conversation. It would’ve gone faster had he not kept getting distracted by the sight of her moving with feminine...

Choices enable temptation.

What a grand revenge you have taken! I saw you innocent, and I deceived you. Four years after, you find me a Christian enthusiast; you then work upon me, perhaps to my complete perdition! But...

Believe me…Nothing is bad or wrong , just prove it as right

God tests, but he does not tempt.

He whirled in the water and grinned at me. Damn, he was a handsome bastard. I realized he was half-naked. Blue swirls of tattoos painted his chest. When God made that chest, he did to...

You know, it’s never wise to tempt the devil”His gaze lowered to her hand, still locked in his grip, her finger glistening with pear juice.His rich voice lowered to raw huskiness “had I not this...

The second cause whence these rebellions sometimes proceed is the devil, who, in order to disquiet and disturb the soul, at times when it is at prayer or is striving to pray, contrives to stir...

This much is true: When you are about to effect the lives of hundreds of people, Satan will do everything he can to prevent it from happening. Often pride and anger are his best assassins.

Ah! but a man cannot be held to write down in cold blood the wild and black thoughts that storm his brain when an uncontrolled passion has battered a breach for them. Yet, unless he...

In other words Jesus went into the desert to confront His enemy and throw down the gauntlet. He would prove Himself to be the legitimate shepherd of Israel by overcoming the temptations that had undone...

It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.

I wonder if pain comes from surrendering or resisting?

They may take you for a fool, promise to shower you with the world, use their canny devastating tongue to manipulate and dominate your mind, but its better to put them bulshit people at arms...

Fear is the devil’s most powerful tool because he can’t always convince a good man to do wrong, but he can paralyze his will with fright, keeping a good man from doing what is right....

Entering the foyer, Royale already decided that he would thank Shake once more for being by his side at Keena’s recital. But she stunned him by eagerly waiting for him just like old times—on her...

The expression on her face was noble. It was a great deal TOO noble.

I did not intend making a philippic against covetousness, a sin to which I believe no one here is addicted. Let us not, however, plume ourselves in not being guilty of a vice to which,...

Even in cases where most people are doing the right thing, talking about the minority who are doing the wrong thing can encourage people to give in to temptation.

Me sentía impotente, solo podía verte llorando, tan pequeña, tan frágil. Y no podía dejar de preguntarme como alguien que apenas me conocía podía derramar tantas lagrimas por mi.Y luego me miraste intensamente aun con...

Truth is, I don’t know what Deacon wants anymore – it’s not just physical. Whatever it is must scare him, though, and I’m the one who ends up getting hurt. So I make the concerted...