Temptation can be tormenting, but remember: The torment of temptation to sin is nothing to compare with the torment of the consequences of sin. Remorse and regret cannot compensate for sin. . . . though sins can be forgiven immediately - the consequences can last a lifetime
Learn that happiness comes through self-control and not being angry or jealous. The only one that you really torment is yourself. It is easier to let go and gain new ways of looking at life.
The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding. . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.
The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
Children blessings seem, but torments are.
If they could say that to their patients, it could be a way to treatment, as in both working on it and preserving it. That could give a patient the faith to fully experience that beauty, without reliving the torment.
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
All I can think is that when you torment a person. . . the soul dies. When the soul dies, I suppose mercy dies, too.
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it.
He leaned up a little and watched her face. Her face would now be, forever, more mysterious and impenetrable than the face of any stranger. Strangers' faces hold no secrets because the imagination does not invest them with any. But the face of a lover is an unknown precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
Torment yourself as little as possible, then you'll torment me less.
You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night.
Death is but an instant, life a long torment.
What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching.
It is not only a matter, I believe, of religious observance and practice. To me, being Jewish means and has always meant being proud to be part of a people that has maintained its distinct identity for more than 2,000 years, with all the pain and torment that has been inflicted upon it
I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons.
Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.