Quotes about Temptation

The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.

My problem is desserts. I am obsessed with desserts.

I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I speak? I will laud mine enemies and they will become friends; I will encourage my friends and they will become brothers. Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

A kiss may ruin a human life

A burnt child loves the fire.

There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm.

Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

Satan hath power to assume a pleasing form. Them big blue eyes. Knew more ways to turn a man's head than the devil's grandmother. I dont know where they learn it at. Hell, she wasnt but seventeen.