Quotes about Urges

We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.

I can resist anything but temptation

Christ can rid you of inner conflict. Man without God is always torn between two urges. His nature prompts him to do wrong, and his conscience urges him to do right.

Libido, or concupiscence, a tending toward certain things in defiance of rational restraint.

I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Desiring to excel is not a sin. It is motivation that determines ambition's character. Our Lord never taught against the urge to high achievement, but He did expose and condemn unworthy motivation.