temptation

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

I can resist everything except temptation.

Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

If the world were merely seductive that would be easy. If it were merely challenging that would be no problem. But I rise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savour) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Never give in never give in never never never never - in nothing great or small large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

I should have shouted "No" and left him. "But at least" said Satan in the deeps of my mind, "know what the temptation is before you do anything hastily.

We haven__ talked since the café, and he__ dead wrong if he thinks I__ caving. I don__ care how many wicked smiles he flashes in my direction or how many times he __istakenly_ brushes his hand against my cheek or thigh. He can make my head spin and my blood run hot, but I__ strong enough to resist his every temptation.

God will never tempt you. It's not in His nature. In fact, He promises to provide an escape route for every tempting situation. But I can promise you this: God will test your faith. And those tests won't get easier. They will get progressively harder as the stakes get higher. And those tests will undoubtedly revolve around what is most important to you...God will test you to make sure your identity and your security are found in the cross of Jesus Christ. And God will go after anything you trust in more than Him until you put it on the altar.

Being around her now was nine parts bliss and one part torment. And he wanted it to last as long as possible.

Attraction isn't wrong. People can__ help who they are drawn to and they certainly can__ control affinity, as uncommon as it is. What is wrong is acting on inclination if it hurts someone else, namely a significant other.

Resist the temptation to see yourself as a victim.

I once faced a temptation that was so persistent and so overwhelming that I literally believed my whole world would go dark if I refused to give in to it," he said. "All I could do was scream to the Holy Spirit to keep me from it.

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

Sexual temptations are lurking around every corner in our lives today! Resisting the temptation to gratify the flesh is a full-time job.

[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold forth for them no temptation? Did Jesus suffer in vain?

A line from The Picture of Dorian Gray kept running through my head- a line which, I thought, might have been written by the Devil himself:"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

Never do what the devil provokes you to do