Quotes about Desirability

Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.

They will forget times of distress. Rough garments will become brilliant while silks and satins lose their sheen. The humble cottage will be more desirable than a palatial home. Patience will be more honorable than power. Obedience will count more than knowledge.

A thing is lovable according as it is good. But God is infinite good. Therefore He is infinitely lovable.

I answer that, Every being, as being, is good. For all being, as being, has actuality and is in some way perfect; since every act implies some sort of perfection; and perfection implies desirability and goodness, as is clear from A[1]. Hence it follows that every being as such is good.

I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me.

After all, it's woman, who decide, if a man is desirable or undesirable.

If we are attracted by the desirability of something God promises, and hope to enjoy it without enjoying God in it and by it, then we are turning God's promise into a summons to idolatry.

A thing is lovable according as it is good. But God is infinite good. Therefore He is infinitely lovable.