Quotes About Desire

He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long.

If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.

what is sought by means of free choice is to make room for merits.

The proverb has it that Hunger is the best cook. The Law makes afflicted consciences hungry for Christ. Christ tastes good to them. Hungry hearts appreciate Christ. Thirsty souls are what Christ wants. He invites them: "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Christ's benefits are so precious that He will dispense them only to those who need them and really desire them.

Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib, und Gesang, Der bleibt ein Narr sein Lebenlang (He who loves not Wine, Women and Song Remains a fool his whole life long)

The vanity and insatiability of the human heart are unspeakable. What a man has does not please him; what he does not have, that he yearns for.

This is the manner that God uses with all of us to strengthen and test our faith, in that He treats us in such a way that we do not know what He will do with us. He does this only so that we will commend ourselves to Him, yield ourselves only to His kindness, and not doubt that He will give us what we desire or something better.

That is, my sin drives me on, it will not give me rest or peace. Neither wine nor bread nor sleep will drive away this feeling of wrath and death.

28. God's love does not find, but creates, that which is pleasing to it. Human love comes into being through that which is pleasing to it.

If we don't use the resources available to us but instead want other resources we don't have, then we're testing God. This is what Satan wanted Christ to do.

If we want to talk about natural powers on the basis of this psalm and on the basis of the Holy Spirit's manner of speaking, then we should call "natural" the fact that we are in sin and death and that we desire, understand, and long for things that are corrupt and evil.

Outwardly you keep the law with works out of fear of punishment or love of gain. Likewise you do everything without free desire and love of the law; you act out of aversion and force. You'd rather act otherwise if the law didn't exist. It follows, then, that you, in the depths of your heart, are an enemy of the law.

Christ also said, "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also" (Matthew 6:21). We pursue what we love. We talk about it because that is where our hearts and thoughts are. Augustine came right to the point when he said: "Whatever I love is my god.

In common with the rest of the world she was eager to grasp at any straw which might rehabilitate her dreams.

Like sexual intercourse, death needs foreplay.

le corps a faim [...] du battement d'un autre coeur pour régler le rythme du sien.

Elle voulait s'enfuir, mais il lui semblait que la prison était dans l'air lui-même.

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Essere desiderati non è semplice. Non bisogna farsi illusioni: non siamo mai noi a essere desiderati, ma quello che l'altro immagina di noi e, spesso, quello che potrà servirgli a giustificare le proprie scelte esistenziali.

Gott wäre natürlich prima. Aber er könnte, wenn es ihn gäbe, nicht deutlicher sein, als er durch seine Abwesenheit ist. So ist er das Wort für alles, was mir fehlt.

ain't learned much, but one thing I have learned is this: everyone wants to fuck you, girl, either physically or mentally. You have to put a limit on the shit you're willing to take and no turning back.

As my mum used to say, be careful what you ask for, you just might get it.

everything he needed

I have had enough. At last I have had enough. I wouldn't have you now if your dick was dripping in diamonds and you farted perfume. So piss off.