Desire Quotes
When God calls His child to live the life of a missionary, He gives him the desire with the calling.
You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.
To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.
We must have a warrant for our prayers. If we have some great desire, we must search the scriptures to find if it be right to ask it.
Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.
To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.
I believe in women. I desire . . . to do those things that would advance women in moral and spiritual, as well as educational work.
I crave the indulgence of my senses but this is countered by an interior desire that is even keener than my senses to know the meaning of things
As we gaze into the mirror it holds up for us, we too easily imagine that what we behold is Nature when in fact we see the reflection of our own unexamined longings and desires.
That 'simple desire' to share something meant that we could enter the world of language without words, where everything is always clear and there is no danger of being misinterpreted.
Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live.
For as long as I am alive, I will not rest in my desire to lead my people out of an abyss of corruption and poverty.
Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.
Pentecost is a celebration of God... a celebration of God's power... a celebration of God's desire to empower us and to dwell within us.
The opposite of heterosexual desire is the eroticising of sameness, a sameness of power, equality and mutuality. It is homosexual desire.
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
The first and foremost requisite of a good football player is that he must have a burning desire to play the game. There is absolutely no substitute for this.
No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.
A man's not doing much until the cause he works for possesses all there is of him. Desire, when harnessed, is power.
Good karma leads to rebirth also. The desire for higher states of mind is a desire. When you are fixated on higher states of mind, you don't become enlightened.
Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.
You will not see that desire begets love, until it all flames into one concise and metallic blaze.
All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.
There is no fire like passion. There are no chains like hate. Illusion is a net, Desire is a rushing river.
Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.
Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.
Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.
When we have a vision of what we can become, our desire and our power to act increase enormously.
In a way, art is a great way to release your love, fantasy, and desires. It's like a fetish. It's a comfortable way of excising a lot of your conscience.
Desire is the root of selfishness; clear your heart of desire and be selfless. Selflessness is the key to inner peace.
While their methods differ radically, artists and physicists share the desire to investigate the ways the interlocking pieces of reality fit together. This is the common ground upon which they meet.
It is only when men associate with the wicked with the desire and purpose of doing them good, that they can rely upon the protection of God to preserve them from contamination.
There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts, we have ever desired anything else.
The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress.
The Lord filled me with desire, and made me feel that I must be as much with Him alone as with souls in public.
The true seeker hunts naught but the object of his quest, and the lover has no desire save union with his Beloved.
We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.
He was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way.