The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn't sin but wants to sin.

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

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

Pray that temptation may not come upon you, but when it does come, accept it as something not alien but your own.

Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't.

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

Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.

Temptations are as thick as the leaves of the forest and no one can be out of the reach of temptation unless he is dead

Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.

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

...I know that if you ask me to jump I will say how high. So I will stay away from you and hope that you never ever say jump.

Sometimes we have to behave indifferent towards people who proclaim their love to us, just to see if they are really different.

The temptation to take the precious things we have apart to see how they work must be resisted for they never fit together again.

Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free

I can smell her perfume, something flowery, too strong in this enclosed darkness. I wonder if this is temptation. If so, I am stone.