Quotes About Desire

There may be times when you have to renew your commitment to release what you want, how you look, and especially what you are doing for the Lord. Much of our effort to do things for the Lord is really the resurgence of our desire to dominate and make things happen in our own strength.

Those who let God be God get off the conveyer belt of emotion and desire when it first starts to move toward the buzz saw of sin.

We can receive the things we do not want—or give up the things we do want—if we have decided, by the grace of God, that we can trust God to take care of us.

We can practice this through spiritual disciplines such as fasting, which can help us stay sweet and strong when we do not get what we want. If we can cheerily give up Twinkies, and peanuts, and steak, and things of that sort for a while, this will bring us to the place where we can say, "Lord, you're quite sufficient for me. If you want to take it away forever, that would be fine.

We have a terrible time understanding love, because we confuse it with desire. Desire and love are two utterly different kinds of things. Not only is desire not love; it is often opposed to love. Right action is the act of love, regardless of the desires of anyone involved.

The funny thing is, I don't care too much. You think you love something so badly, but when it's gone you find out you don't care so much.

Desire lies at the heart of who God made us to be, who we are at our core. Desire is both our greatest frailty and the mark of our highest beauty. Our desire completes us as we become One with our Lover, and it separates us from Him and brings death as it wars against His will.

The reason for entering the struggle is a desire for more; a taste of what life and love could be if freed from the dark memories and deep shame. No one leaves the lethargy of denial unless there is a spark of discontent that pierces the darkness of daily numbness. To live significantly less than what one was made to be is as severe a betrayal of the soul as the original abuse.

When life is hard, pleasure can be more than a diversion. It can easily become a need. We easily move from a properly moderate enjoyment of sensuous experience to a consuming desire for it.

Anyone who said power was not addictive had never really experienced it.

It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.

How I long for more time... but time is a commodity even my vast fortune cannot afford.

A veces, nuestras mentes ven cosas que nuestros corazones desean. (Cardenal Mortati)

Dilema yang sangat terkenal dalam dunia mitologi: pertarungan abadi antara otak & hati, yang seringkali menginginkan hal yang berlawanan. (Apollo-Dionysus)

Zijn grote gouden speer...gevuld met vuur... Werd verscheidene malen in me gestoken... Tot diep in mijn binnenste... Een zo overweldigende heerlijkheid dat je onmogelijk kon wensen dat het ophield.

When it comes to passion, I'm not sure you have any choice but to follow.

The human spirit craves for mastery over its carnal shell.

Po mom iskustvu ljudi idu puno dalje da bi izbjegli nešto ?ega se boje nego da dobiju nešto što žele.

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire

El hombre llega mucho más lejos para evitar lo que teme que para alcanzar lo que desea.

the work of the philosopher Manly P. Hall: If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.

Manly P. Hall: If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.

Je to konflikt medzi Dionýzom a Apolónom. Odveký boj medzi srdcom a rozumom, a tie chcú máloedy to isté.

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