Quotes about Temptation
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.
- Marilyn Monroe
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.
- Marilyn Monroe
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
- Marilyn Monroe
God warriors do not linger in temptation. They never test their strength against lust-they run!
- Mario Murillo
Finally, I learned that we shouldn't seek answers as much as we should seek God. We get overanxious. We try to microwave our own answers instead of trusting God's timing. But here's an important reminder: If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you. There comes a point after you have prayed through that you need to let go and let God. How? By resisting the temptation to manufacture your own answer to your own prayer.
- Mark Batterson
We're too Christian to enjoy sin and too sinful to enjoy Christ. We've got just enough Jesus to be informed, but not enough to be transformed.
- Mark Batterson
When you are tempted to compromise your integrity, remember than an opportunity isn't an opportunity if you have to compromise your integrity.
- Mark Batterson
Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.
- Mark Twain
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
- Mark Twain
It is dull, Son of Adam, to drink without eating, " said the Queen presently. "What would you like best to eat?""Turkish Delight, please, your Majesty, " said Edmund.
- CS Lewis
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
- St. Augustine
When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost.
- Joseph Addison