Quotes about Craving

These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.

Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.

For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.

The most important thing about education is appetite.

Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.

What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?

Our problem is not that we desire too much but too little.

He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing.

The most important thing about education is appetite.

The world cannot satisfy the heart, because the heart is too large for the object.

There is an incessant craving after any teaching that is sensational, exciting, and stirs up emotion. There is an unhealthy appetite for a sort of intermittent and emotional Christianity. The religious life of many is little better than spiritual taste testing, and the agreeable spirit and peaceful that Peter commends is completely forgotten (1 Peter 3:4). Crowds, crying, feelings, entertaining singing, and an incessant stirring up of the emotions are the only things that many people care for.

We think we want comfort in the I-don't-know times of life. But comfort isn't a solution to seek; rather, it's a by-product we'll reap when we stay close to the Lord. What if the comfort and certainties we crave today are a deadly recipe for complacency that will draw our hearts further and further away from God?