Quotes About Desire

It is because the will has no power to bring about salvation that the idea of secular morality is an absurdity. What is called morality only depends on the will in what is, so to speak, its most muscular aspect. Religion on the contrary corresponds to desire, and it is desire that saves...To long for God and to renounce all the rest, that alone can save.

Perfect joy excludes even the very feeling of joy, for in the soul filled by the object no corner is left for saying 'I'. We cannot imagine such joys when they are absent, thus the incentive for seeking them is lacking.

If we go down into ourselves we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

Man's great affliction, which begins with infancy and accompanies him till death, is that looking and eating are two different operations. Eternal beatitude is a state where to look is to eat.

Leggo, per quanto è possibile, soltanto ciò di cui ho fame, nel momento in cui ne ho fame, e allora non leggo: mi nutro.

L'amour charnel est une recherche de l'Incarnation. On veut aimer dans un être humain la beauté du monde, non pas la beauté du monde en général, mais cette beauté spécifique que le monde offre à chacun et qui correspond exactement à l'état de son corps et de son âme.

If there is a real desire, if the thing desired is really light, the desire for light produces it. There is a real desire when there is an effort of attention. It is really light that is desired if all other incentives are absent.

If we apply to the present the point of that desire within us which corresponds to finality, it pierces right through to the eternal.

Desire is impossible: it destroys its object. Lovers cannot be one, nor can Narcissus be two. Don Juan, Narcissus. Because to desire something is impossible, we have to desire what is nothing

If three steps are taken without any other motive than the desire to obey God, those three steps are miraculous; they are equally so whether they take place on dry land or on water.

Toda la publicidad, toda la propaganda, tan variada en sus formas, que busca excitar el deseo de lo superfluo, tanto en el campo como entre los obreros, debe ser considerada un crimen.

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusions and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

Renoncer à tout ce qui n'est pas la grâce et ne pas désirer la grâce.

There is a transcendent energy whose source is from heaven that flows into us as soon as we desire it. It is the true energy; it executes actions through the mediation of our souls and our bodies. We should ask for this food. The moment we ask for it and even by the fact that we ask, we know that God wants to give it to us.

Karn?m?z doymad?kça ekmeÄŸe inan?yor olmam?z beyhude ve faydas?z.

If there is a real desire, if the thing desired is really light, the desire for light produces it

The intelligence can only be led by desire. For there to be desire, there must be pleasure and joy in the work. The intelligence only grows and bears fruit in joy. The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.

The desire to love the beauty of the world in a human being is essentially the desire for the Incarnation. If we think it is something else, we are mistaken. The Incarnation alone can satisfy it. It is also wrong to reproach those mystics who sometimes employ the language of lovers. They are the legitimate owners. The others are only right to borrow it.

But if the soul stops loving it falls, even in this life, into something which is almost equivalent to hell. — Simone Weil

God created our autonomy so we would have the possibility of renouncing it for love. For that very reason we must desire to conserve the autonomy in our fellows.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

Love is the teacher of gods and men, for no one learns without desiring to learn. Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.

C'est en désirant la vérité à vide et sans tenter d'en deviner d'avance le contenu qu'on reçoit la lumière. C'est là tout le mécanisme de l'attention.

But the truth is that while they may be more dramatic, ours are no less supernatural, for the same Lord sovereignly designed the events that also led us to faith. It was he who placed us in a Christian family, or brought us into contact with a Christian, or stirred up in us an unaccountable desire to read