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Temptation Quotes
"The devil will do everything to get you disappointed in God."
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"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."
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"Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it."
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"Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing."
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"Be VERY careful of who or what you entertain when you're bored. Boredom can get you caught up in some foul stuff. Trust!"
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"Cheating is an innate evolutionarily programmed desire, especially in men, but it is not a desire that cannot be controlled."
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"Wisdom makes it even more likely that you will be exposed to the danger of fornication."
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"Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker."
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"She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the consternation of her family - What kind of idiot was Eve, to believe a snake? But now she understood, for she had heard the voice of the snake and had watched as a wise and powerful man had fallen under its spell.Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It's not evil, it's noble and good. You'll be praised for it.And it's delicious."
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"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it."
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"Fornication deprives a person of his spiritual covering."
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"If they really wanted us to resist temptation, they shouldn't a made it so damn tempting."
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"To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction. At the same time, life's temptations come most often from that for which one has the greatest aptitude."
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"Selfishness is one of the most destructive forces in man that is why life demands for its death."
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"Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop, the gut expanded to take in more and more."
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"Everything Satan has to offer you is a collection of what Jesus rejected, it is the garbage bin of Jesus Christ. Matthew 4:1-17."
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"Opportunity may only knock once, but temptation'll knock down the damn door and drag you out by the hair."
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"Fornication is a snare that a person sets for himself."
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"Booze and boys, ain't nothing in the universe that'll make a girl stupid faster."
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"As I stare at it,I can feel little invisible strings,silently tugging me toward it. I have to touch it. I have to wear it. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen."
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"One of the main roots of ungodliness is being a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God."
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"When you come to God, the devil will remind you about the pleasures of sin."
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"The word lust can mean "selfish desire". . . .It is wanting something so badly you will do anything to get it. That is one of the tricks of the devil. It is too high a price to pay."
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"The temptation to spend money increases as a person's opportunities increase."
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"Thou therefore on these Herbs, and Fruits, and Flow'rsFeed first, on each Beast next, and Fish, and Fowl, No homely morsels, and whatever thingThe Scyth of Time mows down, devour unspar'd, Till I in Man residing through the Race, His thoughts, his looks, words, actions all infect, And season him thy last and sweetest prey."
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"Pleasure, in itself harmless, may become mischievous, by endearing to us a state which we know to be transient and probatory, and withdrawing our thoughts from that of which every hour brings us nearer to the beginning, and of which no length of time will bring us to the end. Mortification is not virtuous in itself, nor has any other use, but that it disengages us from the allurements of sense. In the state of future perfection, to which we all aspire, there will be pleasure without danger, and security without restraint."
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"As soon as a person gives place to the devil in his life, the devil has this person hooked."
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"If God offers the world for sale, how much will you pay for it? What is the price of your own destruction?"
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"Be confidently assured that any 'gods' that we build will always have veracious appetites, and sooner or later they will gorge themselves on that which built them."
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"My mom's coming home soon,' I said. 'We should go to your place.'Patch ran a hand across the shadow of stubble along his jaw. 'I have rules about who I take there.' I was getting really tired of that answer. 'If you showed me, you'd have to kill me?' I guessed, fighting the urge to feel irritated. 'Once I'm inside, I can never leave?'Patch studied me a moment. Then he reached into his pocket, twisted a key off his key chain, and slipped it into the front pocket of my pajama top. 'Once you've gone inside, you have to keep coming back."
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"Every sexual sin begins with flattery."
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"Blake took a small roll from the tray on the table, then put it back in favor of a larger one. And maybe a little butter. It certainly couldn't hurt. And jam...no, he drew the line at jam. She was a spy, after all."
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