#temptation

The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way. ↗

— Ugo Betti

#always #first #friend #look #many

But a good wife—a good unworldly woman—may really help a man, and keep him more independent. ↗

— George Eliot

#temptation #life

Power was my weakness and my temptation. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#temptation #weakness #death

The devil can get you through your flesh. He knows the button to press on your flesh and have a way into your mind. The flesh becomes a transport medium for evil things if not killed for God. If Christ makes a home in your mind, satan can't get there. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#bishop #christ #devil #evangelism #evil

They were close enough that he could feel the hurried beat of her heart. He could feel Charlotte's indecision in every word she didn't say and every move she didn't make. She was tense with uncertainty, quivering with irresolution. She might not be leaning into him, but she wasn't pulling away, either. ↗

— Lauren Willig

#night-jasmine #uncertainty #temptation

I'm not very good with anything physical...' she began as they turned down a hallway she had never seen. He flashed her a grin as they walked. 'I find that hard to believe.' She caught the innuendo in his voice and felt a blush creep to her cheeks. 'You know what I mean. ↗

— Michelle Zink

#griffin #griffin-channing #helen #helen-cartwright #michelle-zink

By understanding the nuances of the world around you and how to survive the temptations, you can rule anything. Even yourself ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#survive #understanding #temptation

... the devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for ... ↗

— Tucker Max

#the-devil #temptation

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#temptation

The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#temptation #vices #temptation