Quotes about Desire
Sex understood in the modern way is Eros-love severed from responsibility; it is desire without obligation. Because it is lawless desire, it is therefore Godless desire. That is why eroticism and atheism always go together.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Woe to you that are filled: for you shall hunger";
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Our hearts will be where our joys are.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
A friendship founded on usefulness or pleasure. In this kind of love, the lover loves himself more than his friend. That is why, if the friend ever prevents him from realizing what he wants, his love turns to hate.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Do not say we work to go to Heaven because we are mercenary. Does a man love a woman and ask for her hand because he is mercenary? I love poetry; there's no money in it.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Peace belongs only to those who will to have it.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
We are wired to find love.
— Helen Fisher
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
— St. Augustine
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
— Martin Luther
Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
— Joseph Addison
The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
— Wayne Dyer