Jacqueline Carey Quotes

We are never like angels till our passion dies.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be driven out of the heart like the moneychangers from the temple. Maybe they can, if you patrol your weak points day and night, don't look, don't smell, don't dream.

Protect me from what I want.

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.

I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.

Right is what you should do, wrong is what you really want to do.

My whole life, I've been a Temptation.

The sin that now rises to memory as your bosom sin, let this first of all be withstood and mastered. Oppose it instantly by a detestation of it, by a firm will to conquer it, by reflection, by reason, and by prayer.

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

Everyone has a conflict inside of them - the conflict between what you should do and what you want to do.

Men are victims of their own impulses.

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit.

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.