Quotes About Lust

Christ . . . said that a man who had looked after a woman lustfully had sinned as much as the man who had seduced her. How absurd!

Let, then, the word be preached, and the sins of men will be rebuked, lust will be restrained, and some oppositions will be made against sin, though that be not the effect aimed at.

A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust.

Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil; and those bent on acquiring riches see no sin in their actions.

Dear God. She ached, wanting something that she knew was a sin. Wanting a man who was sin itself.

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust.

How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed - For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.

I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.

There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been.

Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of Nature's fairest forms.

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

Technology is lust removed from nature.

The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.

Lust likes to rush, while love hates to wait.

True Love gives you Peace! It doesn't consume you with anxiety, that's lust!

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

Love delayed is lust augmented.

All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

You think it horrible that lust and rageShould dance attention upon my old age;They were not such a plague when I was young;What else have I to spur me into song?

If thy prayer doth not set thee on work, neither will it set thy God at work for thee. Is it a lust thou art praying against? And dost thou sit down idle to see whether it will now die alone? Will that prayer slay one lust that lets another—thy sloth, I mean —live under its nose? As God will not save thy soul, so neither will he destroy thy sin, unless thy hand also be put to the work.

Cum carne nutriuntur vita carnis—the lusts of the flesh are nourished when the body is pampered.

Our sin is the engine, Satan is the engineer; lust the bait, Satan the angler.