Quotes about Desire
Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.
— St. Augustine
A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.
— Hillary Clinton
There is always something a woman will prefer to the truth.
— Samuel Johnson
Passion gives you what you want, lust gives you what you desire, but only love gives you what you need.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Most of our addictions [shopping, food, bad relationships] as women flare up when we feel that we are not loved or sought after.
— John Eldredge
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
— Thomas Merton
Attachment to spiritual things is.. just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
— Thomas Merton
If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.
— Thomas Merton
The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains.
— Thomas Watson
Unless we deny our own will, we shall never do God's will.
— Thomas Watson
If you set your love on worldly things, they will not satisfy.
— Thomas Watson