There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
Mark TwainTags: sin temptation
What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?
P.G. WodehouseTags: humor temptation new-york-city
There are two influences ever present in the world. One is constructive and elevating and comes from our Heavenly Father; the other is destructive and debasing and comes from Lucifer. We have our agency and make our own choice in life subject to these unseen powers. There is a division line well defined that separates the Lord's territory from Lucifer's. If we live on the Lord's side of the line Lucifer cannot come there to influence us, but if we cross the line into his territory we are in his power. By keeping the commandments of the Lord we are safe on His side of the line, but if we disobey His teachings we voluntarily cross into the zone of temptation and invite the destruction that is ever present there. Knowing this, how anxious we should always be to live on the Lord's side of the line.
George Albert SmithTags: peace temptation agency divine-protection
You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father and mother if I allowed you to expose yourself to such temptation.'
Well, I know I'm not a Christian and I'm beginning to doubt whether I'm a gentleman,' said Philip.
Tags: religion temptation gentlemen
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
Chuck PalahniukTags: sin temptation boredom
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
John DrydenTags: temptation
Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to.
Martin LutherTags: devil temptation drinking beer
Whatever their bodies do affects their souls. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out...
C.S. LewisTags: human-nature temptation
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
George EliotTags: evil soul sin temptation doom damnation unrepentance
There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings
Alfred de MussetTags: liberty devil patriotism temptation
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