What's your weakness?

From the song "Shoop" by Salt N Pepa:

Here I go, here I go, here I go again,
Girls, what's my weakness? (Men!)
Ok then, chillin', chillin', mindin' my business,
Yo, Salt, I looked around, and I couldn't believe this,
I swear, I stared, my niece my witness,
The brother had it goin' on with somethin' kinda...uh
Wicked, wicked - had to kick it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vaN01VLYSQ

"Not all that tempts your wandering eyes
And heedless hearts, is lawful prize;
Nor all that glisters gold."
- Thomas Gray

"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it."
- Thomas Jefferson

"The devil catches most souls in a golden net."     
- German proverb (on temptation)

"The devil can get you through your flesh. He knows the button to press on your flesh and have a way into your mind. The flesh becomes a transport medium for evil things if not killed for God. If Christ makes a home in your mind, satan can't get there."
- Israelmore Ayivor

"Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in."
- Billy Sunday

"... the devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for ..."
- Tucker Max, Assholes Finish First

Who or what lured Judith to do ungodly things in the movie Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor?
https://youtu.be/SDfTwu2CgDY

"It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways."
- Buddha

"The things that tempt us do not come from external persuasions…they originate from our very own hearts. They’re conceived there, entertained by our thoughts and then acted upon. Our hearts need daily scrubbings and consistent discipline to battle against its baleful wishes. Knowing and shedding light upon our heart’s darkness with honest accountability is a good first step towards an untainted ticker!"
- Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence

#MainMessageForToday
Figure out where a road leads before you take it. There are many roads in this world that will take you to pleasurable, fun, and exciting destinations that do not end in any form of lasting happiness.

Temptation can make you lose control like music can.......

From the song 'Conga' by Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine:

Come on, shake your body baby, do the conga,
I know you can't control yourself any longer,
Feel the rhythm of the music getting stronger,
Don't you fight it 'til you tried it, do the conga beat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBM3RlgjhQQ

Interesting.....

"There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it."
- Honore De Balzac, Père Goriot

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also."
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"It is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted."
- Louisa May Alcott, Rose in Bloom

"The source and cause of all temptation is in the inward desire; that being purified or eliminated, outward objects and extraneous powers are utterly powerless to move the soul to sin or to temptation."
- James Allen, Above Life's Turmoil

"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."
- Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

"There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardise."
- Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

"Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you."
- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale 

"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins."
- Benjamin Franklin

"You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage — pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically — to say 'no' to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good.'"
- Stephen Covey

#MainMessageForToday
Have the courage to say no when needed.

From the song 'The Weakness In Me' by Keisha White:

Why do you come here when you know I got troubles enough?
Why do you call me when you know I cant answer the phone?
Make me lie when I don't want to
and make someone else some kind of unknowing fool
You make me stay when I should not.
Are you so strong or is the weakness in me?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlGYSiym0us

"There are temptations around you all the time. The trick is to work your way through anxiety or your tiredness or whatever, and not let yourself get so hungry that you're going and stopping for the burgers, and you don't view it as reward. You're doing better for yourself is eating better food."
- Lisa Ann Walter

"If I’ve already thought through a situation and have a response prepared ahead of time in the event temptation rears its ugly head, it is that much easier to resist."
- Tim Tebow, Through My Eyes: A Quarterback's Journey: Young Reader's Edition

"I once faced a temptation that was so persistent and so overwhelming that I literally believed my whole world would go dark if I refused to give in to it," he said. "All I could do was scream to the Holy Spirit to keep me from it."
- Wesley Hill, Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality

"The Word of God has always been our best defense against Satan’s temptations..."
- Gotquestions.org, What are the keys to resisting temptation?
http://www.gotquestions.org/resisting-temptation.html

"Hope is a fire more ravenous than the flames of temptation. For if only a portion of it poisons your veins, it is enough to make you stand against ridiculous odds again and again and again."
- Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

"Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values — and witnesses."
- Franklin P. Jones

#MainMessageForToday
Never let yourself get so hungry that you are stopping for foods you don't want to eat.

"Temptation, temptation, temptation
I can't resist..."
- From the song 'Temptation' by Diana Krall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J9bwNLRiJU

"The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is like the letting out of waters--where a drop can go, a river can go. Whoever yields to temptation, subjects himself to the law of falling bodies."
- Horace Mann, Thoughts

"If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength."
- François VI de la Rochefoucault

"To go into temptation to find how strong you are, is as wise as to go before a mirror, with closed eyes, to find how you look when asleep."
- Ivan Panin, Thoughts

"Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to."
- Oscar Wilde

"What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don’t want to discourage it completely."
- Franklin P. Jones

"Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs."
- Lydia M. Child

"The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did."
- Penelope Cruz

"I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled, and thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them."
- Tiger Woods

#MainMessageForToday
Resisting temptation takes discipline.

From the song 'Tempted To Touch' by Rupee:

I lose all control when I see you
Standing there in front of me,
Your style, your clothes, your hair
You fair woman, you look so sexy,
De way you wine and de way you dance
And de way that you twist and turn your waist,
Leaves me wanting, leaves me yearning
Leaves me feelin' for a taste.

Before the end of the night,
I wanna hold you so tight,
You know I want you so much,
And I'm so tempted to touch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziaQwqm7VkQ

"Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances."
- Orlando Aloysius Battista

"Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell."
- Author Unknown

"Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity."
- E. H. Chapin, Living Words

"Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch."
- Robert Orben

"Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address."
- Lane Olinghouse

"Temptation isn’t a sin that you triumph over once, completely and then you’re free. Temptation slips into bed with you each night and helps you say your prayers. It wakes you in the morning with a friendly cup of coffee, and knows exactly how you take it."
- Karen Marie Moning, Burned

"We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because he was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means."
- C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"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."
- C.S. Lewis

#MainMessageForToday
Resisting temptation takes strength.

From the song 'Make Me Lose Control' by Eric Carmen:

My darling, turn the radio up for that sweet sound,
Hold me close, never let me go,
Keep this feeling alive, make me lose control.
Baby, baby, when I look in your eyes, I go crazy,
Fever's high with the lights down low,
So, take me over the edge, make me lose control.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQlKa1IeZF8

"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces."
- Will Rogers

"Temptation turns you. It makes you into something you never dreamed, it presses you to give up everything you ever loved, it calls you to sell your soul for one, fleeting moment.[..] It makes you ache...you'll make any promise, swear any oath. For one...perfect...unsoiled taste."
- Sarah MacLean, One Good Earl Deserves a Lover

"There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable."
- Mark Twain

"You never know what you're made of until temptation comes knocking. The only temptation I've given in to is to have one more slice."
- Donna Lynn Hope

"For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."
- Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

"Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't."
- Steve Maraboli

#MainMessageForToday
Life is full of temptation. Temptation can cause us to make inappropriate choices or take things in excess, i.e. throw moderation out of the window.

Theme for the week 7/12 -7/18: #Temptation.