It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the beginning, and yet knowing that he is in the middle, coming from the beginning and going towards the end. He sees that ...
The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon us as sinners. If we could answer it then we would not be sinners. We could make something else responsible...The...
Every work turns against its author: the poem will crush the poet, the system the philosopher, the event the man of action. Destruction awaits anyone who, answering to his vocation and fulfilling it, exerts himself within history; only the man who sa...
Saul: You had orders to kill him and you haven't done it. Now he acts like a prophet, and you follow him! Judas: Did you hear what he said back there? Saul: Yes I heard him. We took an oath against Rome. I don't see a thing against Rome around here, ...
Jesus: [is drawing a circle in the earth while he speaks to God] I'm not going to leave this circle, I'm not going to leave until you speak to me. No signs, no pain, just speak to me in human words. Whatever path you want, I'll take. Love, or the axe...
Jesus: [Opening lines] The feeling begins. Very tender, very loving. Then the pain starts. Claws slip underneath the skin and tear their way up. Just before they reach my eyes, they dig in. And I remember. First I fasted for three months. I even whip...
I resist the temptation to curate my apartment.
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
So many choices and temptations tonight. - Emma
Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
I can resist everything except temptation.
The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
Temptation is the voice of reason without its clothes on.
A woman reading is a grave temptation.
I can resist everything but the temptation of you.
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.
Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
