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Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as temptation)
avg rating 3.89 — 158,206 ratings — published 1962
Take (Temptation, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as temptation)
avg rating 4.37 — 18,139 ratings — published 2014
Try (Temptation, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as temptation)
avg rating 4.12 — 26,916 ratings — published 2013
Trust (Temptation, #3)
by (shelved 8 times as temptation)
avg rating 4.37 — 14,735 ratings — published 2015
The Darkest Temptation (Made, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as temptation)
avg rating 4.03 — 186,023 ratings — published 2020
Temptation (Temptation, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as temptation)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,568 ratings — published 2012
The Devil and Miss Prym (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as temptation)
avg rating 3.62 — 75,697 ratings — published 2000
The Screwtape Letters (Screwtape, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as temptation)
avg rating 4.27 — 546,270 ratings — published 1942
Temptation (Temptation, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as temptation)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,794 ratings — published 2012
Fulfillment (Temptation, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as temptation)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,989 ratings — published 2013
Satisfaction (Temptation, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as temptation)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,969 ratings — published 2013
Temptation (The Hunted, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as temptation)
avg rating 3.83 — 49,805 ratings — published 2015
True (Temptation, #6)
by (shelved 3 times as temptation)
avg rating 4.55 — 7,840 ratings — published 2017
Tate (Temptation, #5)
by (shelved 3 times as temptation)
avg rating 4.46 — 9,060 ratings — published 2017
Attainment (Temptation, #3.5)
by (shelved 3 times as temptation)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,637 ratings — published 2013
Attraction (Temptation, #4)
by (shelved 3 times as temptation)
avg rating 4.32 — 992 ratings — published 2014
Tempted and Tried: Temptation and the Triumph of Christ (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as temptation)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,076 ratings — published 2011
Chocolat (Chocolat, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as temptation)
avg rating 3.96 — 132,965 ratings — published 1999
Sweet Temptation (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as temptation)
avg rating 3.95 — 91,719 ratings — published 2020
Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as temptation)
avg rating 4.02 — 62,678 ratings — published 1943
Temptation: Resisted and Repulsed (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as temptation)
avg rating 4.58 — 624 ratings — published 1658
Tease (Temptation, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as temptation)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,066 ratings — published 2017
Needful Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as temptation)
avg rating 3.99 — 286,082 ratings — published 1991
The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5)
by (shelved 2 times as temptation)
avg rating 4.56 — 1,184,941 ratings — published 2009
The Life of St. Anthony (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as temptation)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,804 ratings — published 357
The Purity Principle: God's Safeguards for Life's Dangerous Trails (LifeChange Books)
by (shelved 2 times as temptation)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,420 ratings — published 2003
Temptation: Applying Radical Amputation to Life's Sinful Patterns (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as temptation)
avg rating 4.14 — 35 ratings — published 2012
The Mighty Quinns: Conor (The Mighty Quinns, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as temptation)
avg rating 3.94 — 194 ratings — published 2001
Back in the Bedroom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as temptation)
avg rating 3.71 — 364 ratings — published 2004
The Bachelor's Bed (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as temptation)
avg rating 3.39 — 551 ratings — published 2000
Oh No, George! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as temptation)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,622 ratings — published 2012
The True Love Experiment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as temptation)
avg rating 4.06 — 203,496 ratings — published 2023
The Pursuit of Holiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as temptation)
avg rating 4.35 — 25,906 ratings — published 1978
The Play (Briar U, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as temptation)
avg rating 3.99 — 195,285 ratings — published 2019
The Chase (Briar U, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as temptation)
avg rating 3.84 — 319,181 ratings — published 2018
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as temptation)
avg rating 3.86 — 187,213 ratings — published 1667
Sweet Temptation (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as temptation)
avg rating 3.65 — 104 ratings — published
Tryst Six Venom (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as temptation)
avg rating 3.81 — 51,266 ratings — published 2021
Ruthless Addiction (Doomed Vows #3)
by (shelved 1 time as temptation)
avg rating 3.42 — 558 ratings — published
Running After Forever (Battles in Love, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as temptation)
avg rating 3.99 — 404 ratings — published
The Relationship Mechanic (Peach Blossom, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as temptation)
avg rating 3.56 — 1,469 ratings — published 2025
The Fiancée Farce (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as temptation)
avg rating 3.95 — 20,717 ratings — published 2023
Chasing Red (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as temptation)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,776 ratings — published
A Perfect Relationship (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as temptation)
avg rating 3.23 — 13 ratings — published
Unraveled (Untamed Hearts #1)
by (shelved 1 time as temptation)
avg rating 4.08 — 666 ratings — published
A God in the Shed (A God in the Shed, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as temptation)
avg rating 3.56 — 6,214 ratings — published 2017
A Gentleman Seduced (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as temptation)
avg rating 3.82 — 281 ratings — published 2004
A Devil Comes to Town (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as temptation)
avg rating 3.52 — 1,407 ratings — published 2018
King of Gluttony (Kings of Sin, #6)
by (shelved 1 time as temptation)
avg rating 3.84 — 60,697 ratings — published 2026
“Wine and women make wise men dote and forsake God's law and do wrong."
However, the fault is not in the wine, and often not in the woman. The fault is in the one who misuses the wine or the woman or other of God's crations. Even if you get drunk on the wine and through this greed you lapse into lechery, the wine is not to blame but you are, in being unable or unwilling to discipline yourself. And even if you look at a woman and become caught up in her beauty and assent to sin [= adultery; extramarital sex], the woman is not to blame nor is the beauty given her by God to be disparaged: rather, you are to blame for not keeping your heart more clear of wicked thoughts. ... If you feel yourself tempted by the sight of a woman, control your gaze better ... You are free to leave her. Nothing constrains you to commit lechery but your own lecherous heart.”
― Dives and Pauper
However, the fault is not in the wine, and often not in the woman. The fault is in the one who misuses the wine or the woman or other of God's crations. Even if you get drunk on the wine and through this greed you lapse into lechery, the wine is not to blame but you are, in being unable or unwilling to discipline yourself. And even if you look at a woman and become caught up in her beauty and assent to sin [= adultery; extramarital sex], the woman is not to blame nor is the beauty given her by God to be disparaged: rather, you are to blame for not keeping your heart more clear of wicked thoughts. ... If you feel yourself tempted by the sight of a woman, control your gaze better ... You are free to leave her. Nothing constrains you to commit lechery but your own lecherous heart.”
― Dives and Pauper
“A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
