Quotes about Desire
A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.
- Hillary Clinton
James 1:14, 15: "But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
- Lewis Sperry Chafer
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
- DH Lawrence
Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
- Marquis de Sade
Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do.
- Jennifer Aniston
If I become content by having my desire satisfied, that is only self-love; but when I am contented with the hand of God and am willing to be at His disposal, that comes from my love to God.
- Jeremiah Burroughs
It's certain that the thing a man's heart is most taken with and set upon is his God.
- Jeremiah Burroughs
On one side self-indulgence presses me hard; on another covetousness strives to make an inroad; my belly wishes to be a God to me, in place of Christ
- Jerome
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
- Victor Hugo
A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?
- George Eliot
Your heart may be paltry compared with the heart of a great saint, but your heart is what God wants from you.
- Peter Kreeft