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.

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.

The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.

The very good people did not convince me; I felt they’d never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you felt the world outside tugging at one with all its golden hands – and you...

Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless.

Knowing was a temptation. What you don’t know won’t tempt you.

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.

Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery?

We will not make love. You’re in this bed as a friend. Why make things difficult?” I was hot all over; his body was perfect, strong, welcoming and oh-so-alive.

The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn’t sin but wants to sin.

[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] … Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold forth for them no temptation? Did...

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

A man may beat down the bitter fruit from an evil tree until he is weary; while the root abides in strength and vigour, the beating down of the present fruit will not hinder it...

They were not unfortunate girls who, as outcasts or in the belief that they were cast out by society, grieved wholesomely and intensely and, once in a while at times when the heart was too...

When you ‘flee’ from Potiphar’s wife, she starts giving you cold shoulders.

Even paradise had its serpent.

First she said we were to keep clear of the Sirens, who sit and sing most beautifully in a field of flowers; but she said I might hear them myself so long as no one...

Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?

Sometimes we have to behave indifferent towards people who proclaim their love to us, just to see if they are really different.

Success cannot resist the temptation of consistency and persistence.

Sure, they only had ten days to stop the giants from waking Gaia. Sure, he could die before dinnertime. But he loved being told that something was impossible. It was like someone handing him a...

Temptation is the voice of reason without its clothes on.

If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something else responsible.

Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.

Perhaps I might have resisted a great temptation, but the little ones would have pulled me down

In moments of unmet desire, heartbreak, or grief, Satan sends a poisonous arrow of doubt straight at your heart. This was his plan with Eve. He persuaded her to think God was “holding out on...

Watch out, brother,’ his professor had told him more than once, ‘you have talent; it would be a sin to ruin it. But you’re impatient. Some one thing entices you, some one thing takes your...

I’d love to try to tame you… And I would simply adore it if you turn out untamable –

If I’ve already thought through a situation and have a response prepared ahead of time in the event temptation rears its ugly head, it is that much easier to resist.

you make me melt” and still have her mind want something else entirely?

You don’t need the Bible to tell you the flesh is weak. Just pinch it and find out for yourself.

People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way to their evil drives.

Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what...

The majority enjoy a young girl as they enjoy a glass of champagne, at one effervescent moment-oh, yes, that is really beautiful, and with many a young girl that is undoubtedly the most one can...

I know that whatever the complex origins of my own homosexuality are, there have been conscious choices I’ve made to indulge – and therefore to intensify, probably – my homoerotic inclinations. As I look back...

Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day,” Raquel said firmly. “And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies.

She held him at arms’ length, looked at the pipe still gripped inn his hand, then looked at his face and read him like a book. She ran the tip of her red tongue slowly...

. . . is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?

Get thee behind me, Satan!

Don’t judge too harshly, for if your weaknesses were to be placed under your footsteps, most likely you would stumble and fall as well.

Many eat that on earth that they digest in hell.

Whatever their bodies do affects their souls. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out…

The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon us as sinners. If we could answer it then we...

There are two influences ever present in the world. One is constructive and elevating and comes from our Heavenly Father; the other is destructive and debasing and comes from Lucifer. We have our agency and...

Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have restored me to happiness and virtue, but would not! You are the destroyer of my Soul;...

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Dad, will they ever come back?””No. And yes.” Dad tucked away his harmonica. “No not them. But yes, other people like them. Not in a carnival. God knows what shape they’ll come in next. But...