Quotes about Temptation

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

So runs the genealogy of many another sin: idleness is usually the grandfather of the crime, whatever the father might be.

But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love. A fine constitution doesn't insure one against small-pox or any other of those inevitable diseases. A man may be very firm in other matters, and yet be under a sort of witchery from a woman.

The tragedy is, when you've got sex in your head, instead of down where it belongs, and when you have to go on copulating with your ears and your nose.

Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.

It is God who makes woman beautiful it is the devil who makes her pretty.

Know well that the enemy laboureth in all wise to stay thy desire in good and to make thee void of all good exercise.

The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains.

Until sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.

We pray, 'lead us not into temptation'. Do we then lead ourselves into temptation?

The more bitterness we taste in sin, the more sweetness we shall taste in Christ.