Quotes about Desire
Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds some promise of happiness. That promise enslaves us until we believe that God is more desired than life itself.
— John Piper
Either you're going to be depressed when your wish is not realized or foolishly pleased with yourself if it is, overjoyed for the wrong reasons.
— Marcus Aurelius
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
— St. Jerome
He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart
— CS Lewis
We know that the body needs bread, therefore we seek for bread for it: so must we seek for the food of the soul.
— Lancelot Andrewes
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
— St. Jerome
I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.
— Albert Einstein
A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.
— CS Lewis
A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
— Anonymous
One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
— Edith Stein
We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.
— Aldous Huxley
I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.
— Albert Camus