Quotes About Desire

Paul's evangelism, his letters suggest, has two great motivations: a sense of obligation derived from what God has done for him and commissioned him to do for others, and a desire that God will be glorified by as great a number of people as possible. We are to imitate Paul by extending God's grace in the gospel just as he did.

We all crave latitude in life, yet simultaneously dig ourselves deeper into domestic entrapment. We may dream of traveling light but accumulate as much as we can to keep us burdened and rooted to one spot.

We're all so preposterous, aren't we. Holding onto our traumas, our agonies, our small dramas and using them to sabotage that which we so want, and actually deserve. ' (Petra Dussman in 'The Moment')

If somebody has the competency to do something, and the desire to do something, then nothing about their race, sex or sexual orientation should hold them back. But minimizing difference is not the same as pretending difference does not exist. To assume that sex, sexuality and skin colour mean nothing would be ridiculous. But to assume that they mean everything will be fatal.

The manner in which marketing addresses women tells us a great deal about what women are actually motivated by when they think men aren't watching. Consider the endless numbers of advertising campaigns and pieces in women's magazines dedicated to motifs like 'Make him drool'.

The metaphysics that a new generation is imbibing and everyone else is being force-fed has many points of instability, is grounded in a desire to express certainty about things we do not know, and to be wildly dismissive and relativistic about things that we actually do know.

ressentiment is at its heart a yearning for revenge motivated by a desire to "anaesthetize pain through emotion

Trying to fulfill earthly desires was like carrying water to the sea; a never- ending task, and an ultimately useless one.

Desire seizes that man whose soul has been brushed by another man's kiss and, holding him by the collar says: This is your existence -- and it is natural, it is positive, it is good, and it is spinning a new way to be.

I'm a pushover for blondes. And brunettes. And redheads. I've even fantasised about that bald woman in the first Star Trek movie. 'I

if God doesn't want us to do it, He doesn't want us to get pleasure from thinking about doing it

A wise man who loves the peaches at home does not want to shake any other trees.

Wealth is not the locus of the sin, but the presence of the wealth is the locus of the temptation.

A man cannot simultaneously want the salvation of God, and desire to remain in the sin from which God saves.

The medievalist has the capacity, and the desire, to harmonize. He believes the planets sing in harmony; why cannot technology also sing?

In the classical liberal order, there was an arbitrary desire to hang the rights of man on a great big invisible sky hook. But whenever you bolt this sky hook into the azure blue, it does not much matter how many extra Kantian bolts you use-the thing simply will not stay up there.

Read because you want to, not because you need to. Actually, you need to as well, but you need to want to. You also need to want to need to, but I am rapidly getting out of my depth.

The long war against God has always been a conflict that boils down to the same thing. Can we somehow have access to the fruit of the tree of life without actually coming to the tree of life?

When you wish to change your life, change your thoughts and create mental pictures of what you desire.

Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.

Puede haber una gran disparidad entre lo que decimos que queremos y lo que realmente hacemos para lograr eso que queremos.

The most you get is what you ask for.

You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can't have it.

You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.