490 Quotes About Temptation

A relationship is like being in a forest, where snakes lurk awaiting the chance to entice.

What Saint has ever won his crown without first contending for it?

He's pressing me to his chest. I melt. Oh, this is where I want to beI rest my head against him, and he kisses my hair repeatedly. This is home. He smells of linen, fabric softener, body wash, and my favourite smell - Christian. For a moment, I allow myself the illusion that all will be well, and it soothes my ravaged soul

I don't know how often opportunity knocks, but temptations to make foul decisions bang on my door all day long. And smelly decisions make for smelly problems later on. A few little decisions, good or bad, can make a big difference in a life. Better to run from those skunks than with them.

But it’s easy enough to ignore temptations when you are confident that there is someone waiting at home for your return. However, if that person is no longer a certainty, then it becomes harder and harder to escape even the least temptation which comes along.

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. No battles we face, no crown will we win. No temptations exist, no conquerors are known.

It's much better that I should read the letter. Otherwise I shall be endlessly wondering what was in it.

we will never be tempted to live by the standards of other people or to be guided by someone else’s opinions if we know who we are

Perhaps I might have resisted a great temptation, but the little ones would have pulled me down