Desire Quotes
... our natural Will is to have God, and the Good Will of God is to have us; and we may never cease from willing nor from longing till we have Him in fullness of joy: and then may we no more desire.
Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.
Desires are seeds waiting for their season to sprout. From a single seed of desire, whole forests grow.
The men and women, who desire to obtain seats in the celestial kingdom, will find that they must battle everyday.
The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.
There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations.
Inherent in every intention and desire is the mechanics for its fulfillment. And when we introduce an intention in our pure potentiality, we put this infinite organizing power to work for us.
Other inner peace quotes encourage letting go of the desire to control everything around us, and slowing down as ways of attaining inner peace.
A problem only exists if there is a difference between what is actually happening and what you desire to be happening.
Research indicates that the desire to achieve the skills associated with success is more highly correlated with achievement than the desire for success itself.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH.
Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.
We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.
Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be disciplined And what you want to happen in time, sacrificed.
As worldly thoughts diminish, thoughts of God increase. Normally, the mind is all the time desiring these worldly things. As the desires are cut out one by one, the peace becomes stronger.
The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race.
If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.
It's never really been that hard for me. I've never had any desire to eat meat. In fact, when I was a kid I would have a really difficult time eating meat at all.
I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.
The forces you are struggling with, that you feel are holding you back - are illusions. They are not real - they never have been. See only the good that you desire in your mind.
To pray in the name of Christ is to pray as one who is at one with Christ, whose minid is the mind of Christ, whose desires are the desires of Christ, and whose purpose is one with that of Christ.
My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.
I get up every morning with a desire to do some creative work. This desire is made of the same stuff as the sexual desire, the desire to make money, or any other desire.
Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.
When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.
Through our faith, we gain the courage to take action. And through action, we move one step closer toward the manifestation of our desires.
I'll never forget the moment I became a dad. It's hard to describe-that level of responsibility, the desire to give such joy, the clarity: Nothing is more important than this.
God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all the beautiful expanse around it as dangerous and swarming with snakes.
Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite and surprise, until at length we cannot wonder even at a miracle.