Sex is not sinful, but sin has perverted it.

Walter Lang

Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.

Leonardo Da VinciThoughts on Art and Life

Sometimes we know we shouldn’t and that’s exactly why we do.

Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.

Tom RobbinsSkinny Legs and All

The best way to escape temptation is to run to God.

Lust feels like love until it’s time to make a sacrifice.

Lust carries her sharp whip at her girdle.

John Wesley

One of the main reasons many don’t make it anywhere is because they keep stopping for temptation.

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

Mae West

Live by the Spirit, I say, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Galatians 5:16

The desire of love is to give. The desire of lust is to get.

Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful.

Paul Bourget

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

John LahrThe Guardian,

Aug. 1989

Purity is the fruit of prayer.

Mother Teresa

If they substituted the word “Lust” for “Love” in popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

Sylvia Plath

When fleeing the scene of temptation, do not leave a forwarding address.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Matthew 5:8

Sins are like a credit card.Enjoy now.Pay later.

Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.

Gabriel García Márquez

Lust is wanting to sleep with someone. Love is wanting to wake up next to them in the morning.

Between the horses of love and lust we are trampled underfoot.

U2, “So Cruel”

Lust indulged became a habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

St. Augustine

Nature is content with little; grace with less; lust with nothing.

Matthew HenryCommentary on the Whole

Bible

I knew we’d cross the line, so I quietly erased it while you weren’t looking.

Rachel Wolchin

More souls go to hell because of sins of the flesh than for any other reason.

Our Lady of Fatima