Top 25 Enticements Quotes
#1. We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone.
James D. Houston
#3. These are my enticements, and they are sufficent to conquer all fear and danger or death ... with the induction of the joy of a child feels when embarks a little boat.
Mary Shelley
#4. Fountains of inconvenient feeling - and toward the frantic enticements of
Cheryl Strayed
#5. A meal can be thought of as a ritual and a work of art, with limits laid down, desires aroused and fulfilled, enticements, variety, patterning and plot. As in a work of art, not only the overall form, but also the details matter intensely.
Margaret Visser
#6. Satan would have you believe that happiness comes only as you surrender to his enticements, but one only needs to look at the shattered lives of those who violate God's laws to know why Satan is called the Father of Lies.
Ezra Taft Benson
#7. Virtue is nothing but an act of loving that which is to be beloved, and that act is prudence, from whence not to be removed by constraint is fortitude; not to be allured by enticements is temperance; not to be diverted by pride is justice.
Francis Quarles
#8. We were given our agency. We must use it wisely and remain close to the Spirit; otherwise, we foolishly find ourselves yielding to the enticements of the adversary.
Boyd K. Packer
#9. They now see with Heaven's eyes the schemes, traps, enticements, and entertainments of the world in a new way. So
John Bunyan
#10. In many ways, our sinful flesh acts as a mole. It is constantly responding to the allurements of the world and the enticements of the devil, and is constantly seeking to collaborate with them. And so we are very vulnerable spiritually. The
Jerry Bridges
#11. Satan will try to use our memory of any previous guilt to lure us back ... We must be ever vigilant to avoid his enticements
Richard G. Scott
#12. Only Certain offered no enticements, for she knew nothing could ease the pain. Not books or photography or food. Not even love.
Billie Letts
#13. I knew too well the nature of life's distractions and enticements-how the piecemeal progress of our hopes and ambitions commands our undivided attention, reshaping the ethereal into the tangible, and commitments into compromises.
Amor Towles
#14. We Americans are titillated by sex, obsessed by it, horrified by it. When an apparently healthy person, especially a healthy young man, elects to forgo the enticements of the flesh, it shocks us, and we leer. Suspicions are aroused.
Jon Krakauer
#15. One must be prepared to fight for one's simple pleasures and to defend them against elegance and erudition and all manner of glamorous enticements.
Amor Towles
#16. Yes, I am aware of the enticements required to obtain them," Kang replied with distaste. "I believe the Russians could teach the West a thing or two about capitalistic extortion.
Clive Cussler
#17. It's arguable whether a hit song is gonna add to the business a film does. There are plenty of films that didn't do any business and sold a million albums.
John Hughes
#18. Your Dragon has been a bit of a gigolo over the centuries, my dear. It would be easier to point out the females he hasn't nailed than to list the ones he's bedded.
Candace Blevins
#19. I know I'm the one who has shattered the perfection that was our souls as one.
Cassandra Giovanni
#21. It was amazing, really, the effort that went into the absence of things.
Ann Brashares
#22. Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.
Richard M. Nixon
#23. There is something about a bathroom that feels like a fortress. A closed bathroom door may only be about two inches of plywood, but it feels like an iron bar.
Ursula Vernon
#24. They had offered him comfort and shelter, even when he was afraid of taking them, and in accepting he had learned something new. It was as much of a gift to receive as it was to give, requiring as it did both courage and humility.
Rachel Joyce
#25. It is my belief that almost anyone can be had with breadcrumbs. For if you leave a trail of the right variety, your prey will come straight to you.
Richelle E. Goodrich