Temptation Quotes

"There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues." "Why everything that's supposed to be bad make me feel so good" "A man is only as faithful as his options" "Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained" "No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from." "The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck." "We should every night call ourselves to an account. What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?" "Madness is never that far away. It’s as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse." "Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it." "The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief" "Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare" "Forbid us something and that thing we desire"