Quotes About Desire

For there is a disease in him who despiseth present mercies, which till it be cured, he can never be happy. He esteemeth nothing that he hath, but is ever gaping after more: which when he hath he despiseth in like manner.

Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.

Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.

Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end.

We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.

Prayer is the heart's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed,

The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains.

If you set your love on worldly things, they will not satisfy.

In a word a contented Christian, being sweetly captivated under the authority of the Word, desires to be wholly at God's disposal and is willing to live in that sphere and climate where God has set him.

You may as well bid an elephant fly in the air, as a covetous man live by faith.

lo que los juicios apremian- los afectos los abrazan. El que valora el oro, se deleitará en él. Tenemos la tendencia, por incredulidad, de entretener leves pensamientos de piedad, por lo tanto, nuestros afectos son tan leves. David apreciaba los estatutos de Dios a un ritmo elevado; "Más que desear son que el oro, y más que mucho oro fino," Salmo 19.10. y por lo tanto creció que el amor se inflama por

Lusts within are worse than lions without.

So dear is sin to a man that he will rather part with a child than with a lust

What the heart does not do, is not done.

A carnal person can no more value spiritual blessings than a baby can value a diamond necklace.

Is this not the true romantic feeling not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Even in times of the most entrenched rationalism, there lives in every man a little Alexander who never managed to conquer his Eudaimon Arabia.

For the first time Topper's established routine of living gave place to a disorderly desire to live.

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.

It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

The central movement of the mind is the desire for unrestricted liberty and (...) this movement is invariably accompanied by its opposite, a dread of the consequences of liberty.

And at once he sacrificed everything to it, if it can be said we ever sacrifice anything save what we know we can never attain, or what some secret wisdom tells us it would be uncomfortable or saddening to possess.

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs. Her religious beliefs went first, for all she could ask of a god, or of immortality, was the gift of a place where daughters love their mothers; the other attributes of Heaven you could have for a song.