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...