Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day Raquel said firmly And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies

Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify Your truth.

You must know everything that God has forbidden you so as to be able to avoid it, for the one who does not recognize evil falls into it.

Although I love elegant parties, dancing and dining and spending the night with a sweet woman in my arms, my life belongs to literature.

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

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise

Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day," Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies.

Like a drop of ink in water, the urge rushed to the surface and then slowly spread out and thinned until I was made slightly darker by it.

Don't judge too harshly, for if your weaknesses were to be placed under your footsteps, most likely you would stumble and fall as well.

Dismantle your friend to see how he behaves. If he smiles with a beautiful grin, then take him back, he's worthy to be called a friend.

You never know what you're made of until temptation comes knocking. The only temptation I've given in to is to have one more slice.

Despite the weight of the world on my shoulders, the temptation to stop and smell the supernatural roses tugged on my sleeves a time or two.

Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.

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

What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!