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...

You see, I know you, Violet. You’ve tormented me in my dreams with your body too many times to count. Now you’re here in the flesh, with your ripe curves and innocent eyes, an angel...

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

The Christian does not avoid sin to achieve salvation, but rather salvation brings him to a desire not to sin. The closer that one’s spirit is synchronized with the holy knowledge of God, the more...

You must know everything that God has forbidden you so as to be able to avoid it, for the one who does not recognize evil falls into it.

Love may be able to force you into precarious situations, it may lead you into double-edged bonfires and you don’t smell the smoke, you only see the temptation of a perfume.

We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume.

…there’s one thing you’ll never be delivered from. It’s a ten-letter word called temptation!

When you’re in love with two people, always choose the second. The fact that you are constantly thinking of the second person makes it obvious that the first will never fulfill you, unless the second...

There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings

If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation. Like the old knights in war time, we must sleep...

But a good wife—a good unworldly woman—may really help a man, and keep him more independent.

I have a deep appreciation for anything that challenges my morality. I tend to wonder which thing or person might overpower my beliefs and would I avoid it altogether in order to say, “It didn’t...

One gives way to the temptation, only to rise from it again, afterwards, with a great eagerness to reestablish one’s dignity, as if it were a tombstone to place on the grave of one’s shame,...

The Devil’s RoseYou would never take a rose from a beast. If his callous hand were to hold out a scarlet flower, his grip unaffected by pricking thorns, you would shrink from the gift and...

My God, Sweetness beyond words, make bitter all the carnal comfort that draws me from love of the eternal and lures me to its evil self by the sight of some delightful good in the...

We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because he was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only...

Jesus does not impose intolerable restrictions on his disciples, he does not forbid them to look at anything, but bids them look on him. If they do that he knows that their gaze will always...

With every morn my life afresh must breakThe crust of self, gathered about me fresh;That thy wind-spirit may rush in and shakeThe darkness out of me, and rend the meshThe spider-devils spin out of the...

With Stefan, the line between good and evil, right and wrong, becomes increasingly blurred.

Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.

While you and I have to expect temptation, we sure don’t have to feed it.

The fantasized kiss was stolen time from the dreams…

Wine and women make wise men dote and forsake God’s law and do wrong.” However, the fault is not in the wine, and often not in the woman. The fault is in the one who...

Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.

My head spins as I glance away, refusing to get sucked back into his gaze when so much is at risk.

I can smell her perfume, something flowery, too strong in this enclosed darkness. I wonder if this is temptation. If so, I am stone.

I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.

Her skin hummed with anticipation of Jaxon’s touch. She squeezed her thighs as her womb clenched. This could all go brilliantly or it could all go to hell.

The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is… A man who gives...

The temptation to take the precious things we have apart to see how they work must be resisted for they never fit together again.

Arthur Dent: What happens if I press this button?Ford Prefect: I wouldn’t-Arthur Dent: Oh.Ford Prefect: What happened?Arthur Dent: A sign lit up, saying ‘Please do not press this button again.

In your Christian walk there will be times that you will have to separate from friends and acquaintances. Otherwise, you’ll be tempted to go back to dabble in past behaviors. Understand the enemy…he will use...

If heaven was hot and hell was chilly, tell me, why would you go to heaven?

Being around her now was nine parts bliss and one part torment. And he wanted it to last as long as possible.

When a man desires a thing too much, he at once becomes ill at ease. A proud and avaricious man never rests, whereas he who is poor and humble of heart lives in a world...

The debris of her married life was enough to sever the tie between reality and dreams, the fine line between desire and temptation. Where did she draw the line? When did she admit defeat and...

Our response to temptation reveals the substance of our faith.

It is not the best for us to lay embago on the industries that produce temptations. What we need to do is to compete, overcome and dominate the market with the products of our endurance....

Words are the great temptation.

But there was only so much temptation a man could resist without losing all respect for himself.

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...