Although I love elegant parties, dancing and dining and spending the night with a sweet woman in my arms, my life belongs to literature.

Just because a feeling is natural does not mean it should be indulged.

Mma Ramotswe sighed. ‘We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.’That is true,’ said Mma Potokwane sadly. ‘There are many temptations in this life, but cake is probably one...

The things that tempt us do not come from external persuasions…they originate from our very own hearts. They’re conceived there, entertained by our thoughts and then acted upon. Our hearts need daily scrubbings and consistent...

dangerous chemistry

I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.

Not to be daily employing the Spirit and new nature for the mortifying of sin is to neglect that excellent succor which God has given us against our greatest enemy. If we neglect to make...

He had more of Carina during these summer months than he’d ever had with her when they were fuck buddies and attempting to date. She was nothing yet she was everything to him. Jaxon wouldn’t...

You’ve been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father and mother if I allowed you to expose yourself to...

I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

I knew how one climbing the mountain of worldly success can slip down into the river below without being conscious of the descent till he is already drowning.

Take care of your soul; it will never lose its tournament if Jesus is the coach of your life. He will substitute your sins for righteousness and you will not be tempted to suffer a...

You never know what you’re made of until temptation comes knocking. The only temptation I’ve given in to is to have one more slice.

Whenever i see someone fighting me for no reason, I’m always highly impressed that God has instigated his anger against me, just as he did to pharoah against the Israelites, so as to cast me...

God invites while the devil pressures and shoves and bullies. Realize who holds the actual power before you react. You are greater than Satan; God is greater than all.

It happens very often that those whom men esteem highly are more seriously endangered by their own excessive confidence. Hence, for many it is better not to be too free from temptations, but often to...

Well, Mr Markham, you that maintain that a boy should not be shielded from evil, but sent out to battle against it, alone and unassisted – not taught to avoid the snares of life, but...

And I’m glad to see that all three clients are male. Not that the females can’t be corrupted, I’ve just always found the males more amenable to temptation. The males have always had all the...

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship – when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He...

Temptation isn’t a sin that you triumph over once, completely and then you’re free. Temptation slips into bed with you each night and helps you say your prayers. It wakes you in the morning with...

In his temptation of Jesus, Satan quoted Scripture, and he didn’t remember, misquote anything. God wants his children to eat bread, not to starve before stones. God will protect his anointed one with the angels...

If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could?

The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my...

Temptation is the art of luring the Christian out of his protection circle. The tempter has no permission to step inside the circle but he works tirelessly in enticing the christian to make himself vulnerable...

It was a constant battle not to turn her head in his direction; but every time she did, he was looking over at her. Each time he’d smile, and Rylan would jerk her gaze away....

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, might it have its own course, it would go out to the utmost sin in that kind. Every unclean thought...

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride. They have yielded to the perennial temptation.

Kalau kau memandangiku dengan cara seperti itu, aku akan salah paham tentangmu. Jadi… hentikan.””Kau berpenampilan seperti itu di depanku, bagaimana bisa aku tidak memandangimu?

A relationship is like being in a forest, where snakes lurk awaiting the chance to entice.

He’s pressing me to his chest. I melt. Oh, this is where I want to beI rest my head against him, and he kisses my hair repeatedly. This is home. He smells of linen, fabric...

The devil can get you through your flesh. He knows the button to press on your flesh and have a way into your mind. The flesh becomes a transport medium for evil things if not...

Lead me not into temptation. I can find the way myself.

The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.

Hope is a fire more ravenous than the flames of temptation. For if only a portion of it poisons your veins, it is enough to make you stand against ridiculous odds again and again and...

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation...

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 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?

Even paradise had its serpent.

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...