Quotes about Desire
Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.
— St. Augustine
Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
— Vernon Howard
God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her
— Ernest Hemingway
I Love Jesus Christ and that is why I am on fire with the desire to give Him souls, first of all my own, and then an incalculable number of others.
— Alphonsus Liguori
Lust is not the worst thing. It is because any day, any time, lust may turn into love that we have to avoid it. And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.
— Graham Greene
If you love God, tear out your heart's love of the world.
— Muhammad Ali
And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.
— DH Lawrence
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
— George Eliot
How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.
— Margaret Atwood
Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.
— Teresa of Avila
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
— Albert Camus
We may love money without having it, just as we may have money without loving it.
— JC Ryle