490 Quotes About Temptation

A small temptation can stop a great glory and turn great joy into a great sorrow

...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.

He turned and quickly removed his pants. My eyes grew huge, since he wore nothing underneath. I started to stammer, trying to avert my gaze,his sex all but riveting my eyes as I stared, blatantly helpless.“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.

This much is true: When you are about to effect the lives of hundreds of people, Satan will do everything he can to prevent it from happening. Often pride and anger are his best assassins.

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

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

Pressure is God's way of increasing your capacity.

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.

We do not sufficiently respect that anti-mephistoclean force which, like the mephistoclean one, threatens the balance of life: a force that constantly wishes what is good and constantly produces what is evil.