Quotes about Temptation

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

The road of gluttony leads straight to lust and, if traveled a little farther, to the loss of one's soul.

The road of gluttony leads straight to lust and, if traveled a little farther, to the loss of one's soul.

But beyond confusion and rage, the strongest feeling I remember having that night was frustrated desire, because I would never be able to satisfy my need to run my hands over Rosa's body, to penetrate her secrets, to release the green fountain of her hair and plunge into its deepest waters.

Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.

A church debt is the devil's salary.

The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.

Human nature, if it healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.

Sin is protean. It is a cancer that keeps mutating, and just when you think you have killed off one form, it turns out a deadlier strain yet is threatening your heart.

We're always at war with good and evil in this world. No one escapes it. It's how we see it, how we recognize it that engages us in battle.