490 Quotes About Temptation

that is one of the great secrets of life-- to cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul. You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know

Temptation can sway even the purest mind to sin, and the denialist to claim that tomorrow will bring change. However, the irrefutable truth is—tomorrow, my friend, never comes.

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

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.

Human nature towards the Truth weakens in heart while falsehood increases and the more it rises, the more powerful those in power become. The fact that man is fact of life should bring him to a recognition that the delusions of life and the opinions of others are of no power.

Lead you not into temptation? Got it. And what else would you like me not to do? – God

Eve was tempted not by wealth or love but by knowledge.

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

Like a war drum thumping out a raging surge, hearts thundered with the deep bass that tempted.