No matter how many sins you make or how slow you travel back toward God’s valley, you are still way ahead of a person who never made a mistake and doesn’t know what it is...

Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Don’t let affluence make you impoverished of God.

Pray that temptation may not come upon you, but when it does come, accept it as something not alien but your own.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

He who does not know how to encircle a girl so that she loses sight of everything he does not want her to see, he who does not know how to poetize himself into a...

People couldn’t become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which FOR US (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like motoring—don’t wait till the last moment before you put on...

It is God’s earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential being. Man’s body is not his prison, his shell his exterior, but man...

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.

For any filmmaker who has just released a film and who is experiencing some measure of success, the temptation can be great to respond to every screening request that comes in.

Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker.

Every temptation proves a crossroad where we must choose between the high road and the low road. On some occasions it is a trial of agonizing frustration. On other occasions, it is a mere annoyance,...

Like a drop of ink in water, the urge rushed to the surface and then slowly spread out and thinned until I was made slightly darker by it.

My heart is desperately wicked” provides no such comforts. It heads off all attempts to shift blame, and cuts down all the pretensions of spiritual pride.

Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad.

But really, why should you distress yourself? Whoever stirs up the past — out with his eye! Who is not a sinner before God and to blame before the Tsar, as the saying is?

God also puts His people in the middle of things for the same reason that He put the tree of temptation in the middle of the garden–so that our choice to follow Him would be...

One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight. At that time, James Nightshade of 97 Oak Street was thirteen years, eleven months, twenty-three days old. Next door, William Halloway was thirteen years,...

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.

Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify Your truth.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

suppress sin”.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

Temptation turns you. It makes you into something you never dreamed, it presses you to give up everything you ever loved, it calls you to sell your soul for one, fleeting moment.[..] It makes you...

It sounded like the usual—seduce and ruin, my area of expertise, also my area of boredom.

What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman’s dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!

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...

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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.