| Quotation 1 : | DESIRE
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." |
| Susan B. Anthony |
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| Quotation 2 : | DESIRE
"“Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem."" |
| Jiddu Krishnamurti |
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| Quotation 3 : | DESIRE
"Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform." |
| Chanakya |
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| Quotation 4 : | DESIRE
"When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve." |
| Napoleon Hill |
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| Quotation 5 : | DESIRE
"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires." |
| Sigmund Freud |
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| Quotation 6 : | DESIRE
"Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds." |
| Saint Teresa of Avila |
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| Quotation 7 : | DESIRE
"God desires to be loved by men, although He needs them not; and men refuse to love God, though they need Him in an infinite degree." |
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| Quotation 8 : | DESIRE
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self." |
| Aristotle |
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| Quotation 9 : | DESIRE
"When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream." |
| Paulo Coelho |
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| Quotation 10 : | DESIRE
"In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is throu" |
| Charles Stanley |
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| Quotation 11 : | DESIRE
"Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment." |
| Thomas Carlyle |
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| Quotation 12 : | DESIRE
"As is your desire, so is your will. As is your will, so is your deed. As is your deed, so is your destiny." |
| —The Upanishads |
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| Quotation 13 : | DESIRE
"If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation." |
| —J. Krishnamurti |
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| Quotation 14 : | DESIRE
"Look into the nature of desire, and there is boundless light." |
| —Padmasambhava, Tibetan yogi |
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| Quotation 15 : | DESIRE
"To reach satisfaction in all desire its possession in nothing, To come to the knowledge of all desire the knowledge of nothing. To come to possess all desire the possession of nothing. To arrive at being all desire to be nothing." |
| — St. John of the Cross |
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| Quotation 16 : | DESIRE
"Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully." |
| —Mark Epstein |
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| Quotation 17 : | DESIRE
"A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal that is worth achieving." |
| —Ayn Rand |
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| Quotation 18 : | DESIRE
"Whenever you start guiding yourself by caring about how you feel, you start guiding yourself back into your Stream of Source Energy, and that’s where your clarity is; that’s where your joy is; that’s where your flexibility is; that’s where your balance is" |
| —Abraham-Hicks |
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| Quotation 19 : | DESIRE
"A desire is anything but frivolous. It is the interface between you and that which is greater than you. No desire is meaningless or inconsequential. If it pulls you, even a little bit, it will take everyone higher. Desire is where the Divine lives, inside" |
| —Mama Gena |
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| Quotation 20 : | DESIRE
"Prayer: Holding in mind what you desire, but without adding desire to it." |
| David R. Hawkins |
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| Quotation 21 : | DESIRE
"The desire for truth is the highest of all desires, yet, it is still a desire. All desires must be given up for the real to be.....When all search ceases, it is the Supreme State." |
| Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj |
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| Quotation 22 : | DESIRE
"The ego is the single biggest obstruction to the achievement of anything. Between-ness is the act of acting without ego. You act, but you are not the actor. You do things, but you are not the doer--and you know you are not the doer. It's the ability to ho" |
| By Richard Rose |
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| Quotation 23 : | DESIRE
"Even the desire for peace of mind or bliss is an ego. Life is a battle, and we don't want to face that." |
| By Richard Rose |
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| Quotation 24 : | DESIRE
"“Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen."" |
| Marcia Wieder |
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| Quotation 25 : | DESIRE
"“Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything."" |
| Napoleon Hill |
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| Quotation 26 : | DESIRE
"Desire means the way to go out; desire is the path that leads you out. If your mind is still desiring, you cannot move within." |
| Osho |
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| Quotation 27 : | DESIRE
"“Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are."" |
| Eric Hoffer |
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| Quotation 28 : | DESIRE
"Right now, and in every now-moment, you are either closing or opening. You are either stressfully waiting for something - more money, security, affection - or you are living from your deep heart, opening as the entire moment, and giving what you most deep" |
| David Deida |
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| Quotation 29 : | DESIRE
"A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two men" |
| Swami Sivananda |
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| Quotation 30 : | DESIRE
"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 |
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| Quotation 31 : | DESIRE
"A small child has no ambitions, he has no desires. He is so absorbed in the moment - a bird on the wing catches his eye so totally; just a butterfly, its beautiful colors, and he is enchanted; the rainbow in the sky... and he cannot conceive that there ca" |
| Osho |
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| Quotation 32 : | DESIRE
"“And desires are never here and now -- they are non-existential. They are just mental, in the mind. And they cannot be fulfilled because their very nature is to move into the future."" |
| Osho |
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| Quotation 33 : | DESIRE
"“Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek."" |
| Mario Andretti |
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| Quotation 34 : | DESIRE
"“Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment."" |
| Marsha Sinetar |
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| Quotation 35 : | DESIRE
"“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."" |
| Plato |
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| Quotation 36 : | DESIRE
"Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers." |
| Henri Frederic Amiel |
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| Quotation 37 : | DESIRE
"Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old." |
| Abraham Lincoln |
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| Quotation 38 : | DESIRE
"Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires." |
| Lao Tzu |
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| Quotation 39 : | DESIRE
"With humility comes the willingness to stop trying to control or change other people or life situations or events ostensibly 'for their own good'. To be a committed spiritual seeker, it is necessary to relinquish the desire to be 'right' or of imaginary v" |
| David R. Hawkins |
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| Quotation 40 : | DESIRE
"Everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal power. If we have enough of it, one word is enough to change the course of our lives. If we don't, the most magnificent piece of wisdom can be revealed to us and that revelation won't make a damn" |
| Carlos Castaneda |
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| Quotation 41 : | DESIRE
"A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man." |
| John Adams |
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| Quotation 42 : | DESIRE
"“Buddha says: Life should be simple, not complex. Life should be based on needs, not on desires. Needs are perfectly okay: you need food, you need clothes, you need a shelter, you need love, you need relationship. Perfectly good, nothing wrong in it. Nee" |
| Osho |
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| Quotation 43 : | DESIRE
"“Buddha says this is how one should be -- no desire, because all desires are futile. They are about the future; life is in the present. All desires distract you from the present, all desires distract you from life, all desires are destructive of life, all" |
| Osho |
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| Quotation 44 : | DESIRE
"“But with the other-worldly desires there is far greater danger because they are other-worldly, and to see them and to experience them you will have to wait till death. They will happen only after death so you cannot be free of them in life, while you are" |
| Osho |
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| Quotation 45 : | DESIRE
"“Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil."" |
| Swami Sivananda |
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| Quotation 46 : | DESIRE
"“Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success."" |
| Napoleon Hill |
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| Quotation 47 : | DESIRE
"“Existence does not listen to your desires, and does not follow your desires, however beautiful and however pious. Existence goes on in its own way."" |
| Osho |
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| Quotation 48 : | DESIRE
"“Future is your projection of unfulfilled desires. The more unfulfilled you are, the bigger a future you have. The more unfulfilled is your being, the richer the dreams you have of the future. But it is just in your mind."" |
| Osho |
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| Quotation 49 : | DESIRE
"Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh." |
| Marcus Aurelius |
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| Quotation 50 : | DESIRE
"A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires." |
| Orison Swett Marden |
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| Quotation 51 : | DESIRE
"Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories." |
| Elie Wiesel |
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| Quotation 52 : | DESIRE
"Real prayer is communion with God, so that there will be common thoughts between His mind and ours. What is needed is for Him to fill our hearts with His thoughts, and then His desires will become our desires flowing back to Him." |
| A.W. Pink |
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| Quotation 53 : | DESIRE
"The prevailing idea seems to be, that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and that I expect Him to give me that which I have asked. But this is a most dishonouring and degading conception. The popular belief reduces God to a servant, our" |
| A.W. Pink |
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| Quotation 54 : | DESIRE
"It is not your idea, not your understanding, not your thinking, not your reasoning, not even your profession of faith, that here can quench the thirst. The home-sickness goes out after God Himself... it is not the name of God but God Himself whom your so" |
| Abraham Kuyper |
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| Quotation 55 : | DESIRE
"If the Lord should always be swift to hear us, how slow should we be in hearing him, and while we have our desires, forget most of our duties." |
| Abraham Wright |
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| Quotation 56 : | DESIRE
"Men ought to seek with their whole hearts to be filled with the Spirit of God. Without being filled with the Spirit, it is utterly impossible that an individual Christian or a church can ever live or work as God desires." |
| Andrew Murray |
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| Quotation 57 : | DESIRE
"GOD will not permit that a soul which desires to be devoted entirely to Him should take other pleasures than with Him: that is more than reasonable." |
| Brother Lawrence |
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| Quotation 58 : | DESIRE
"The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 59 : | DESIRE
"As you spend time in God's Word and understand his love, the Holy Spirit will create new desires within you to love and serve others like never before." |
| Chip Ingram |
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| Quotation 60 : | DESIRE
"Of late God has been pleased to keep my soul hungry almost continually, so that I have been filled with a kind of pleasing pain. When I really enjoy God, I feel my desires of Him the more insatiable and my thirstings after holiness more unquenchable." |
| David Brainerd |
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| Quotation 61 : | DESIRE
"There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned, unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigib" |
| E.M. Bounds |
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| Quotation 62 : | DESIRE
"While God most often appeals to our wills through our reason, sin and Satan usually appeal to us through our desires." |
| Jerry Bridges |
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| Quotation 63 : | DESIRE
"The nearer anyone is to heaven, the more earnestly he desires to be there, because Christ is there." |
| John Owen |
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| Quotation 64 : | DESIRE
"The key to lasting happiness and real pleasure in this world is not found in seeking gratification, but in pleasing God. And while the Lord desires that we enjoy His gifts and the people to whom we are joined, He wants us to know that we were created firs" |
| Francis Frangipane |
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| Quotation 65 : | DESIRE
"Resign every forbidden joy; restrain every wish that is not referred to God's will; banish all eager desires, all anxiety; desire only the will of God; seek him alone and supremely, and you will find peace." |
| Francois Fenelon |
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| Quotation 66 : | DESIRE
"That man is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and desires, without a glow or an aspiration, with the weight of low thoughts, failures, neglects, and wandering forgetfulness, and say to Him, 'Thou art my refuge.'" |
| George Macdonald |
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| Quotation 67 : | DESIRE
"There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, He wants me as His friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given His Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose. not merely" |
| J.I. Packer |
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| Quotation 68 : | DESIRE
"No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition." |
| Jeremy Taylor |
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| Quotation 69 : | DESIRE
"God can restrain not only people's actions, but even their most deeply rooted desires. No part of the human heart is impervious to God's sovereign but mysterious control." |
| Jerry Bridges |
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| Quotation 70 : | DESIRE
"It is our own evil desires that lead us into temptation. We may think we merely respond to outward temptations that are presented to us. But the truth is, our evil desires are constantly searching out temptations to satisfy their insatiable lusts (James 1" |
| Jerry Bridges |
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| Quotation 71 : | DESIRE
"Our reason, enlightened by the Holy Spirit through the Word of God, stands in the way of sin gaining mastery over us through our desires." |
| Jerry Bridges |
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| Quotation 72 : | DESIRE
"What is holiness? The best practical definition that I have heard is simply "without sin." That is the statement that was made of the Lord Jesus' life on earth (Hebrews 4:15), and that should be the goal of every person who desires to be godly. Granted, w" |
| Jerry Bridges |
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| Quotation 73 : | DESIRE
"It is not the mouth that is the main thing to be looked at in prayer, but whether the heart is so full of affection and earnestness in prayer with God, that it is impossible to express their sense and desire; for then a man desires indeed, when his desire" |
| John Bunyan |
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| Quotation 74 : | DESIRE
"Every person in the world, including yourself, will encounter various trials throughout life. Satan seeks to defeat you by tempting you to trust your own wisdom, to live according to your self-centered feelings, and to gratify the desires of your flesh. I" |
| John C. Broger |
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| Quotation 75 : | DESIRE
"Marriage itself is consummated with the literal bodily union of husband and wife. From that point on, the husband should regard the wife as his own flesh. If she hurts, he ought to feel the pain. If she has needs, he should embrace those needs as his own." |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 76 : | DESIRE
"If our principal treasure be as we profess, in things spiritual and heavenly, and woe unto us if it be not so! on them will our affections, and consequently our desires and thoughts, be principally fixed." |
| John Owen |
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| Quotation 77 : | DESIRE
"Do you have a hunger for God? If we don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because we have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because we have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Our soul is stuffed with sm" |
| John Piper |
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| Quotation 78 : | GREED
"There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed." |
| Mahatma Gandhi |
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| Quotation 79 : | GREED
"It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meannes" |
| John Steinbeck |
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| Quotation 80 : | GREED
"Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction." |
| Erich Fromm |
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| Quotation 81 : | GREED
"The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion." |
| Bodhidharma |
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| Quotation 82 : | GREED
"Dave MustaineIf we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect." |
| Jacques Yves Cousteau |
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| Quotation 83 : | GREED
"Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger." |
| Abu Bakr |
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| Quotation 84 : | GREED
"Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed." |
| Thomas Harris |
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| Quotation 85 : | LUST
"Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust
Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust" |
| — John Webster |
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| Quotation 86 : | LUST
"Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power," |
| — Ravi Zacharias |
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| Quotation 87 : | LUST
"Lust and force are the source of all our actions; lust causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones." |
| Blaise Pascal |
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| Quotation 88 : | LUST
"Satan rules all men that are in his kingdom. Some he rules through lust. Some he rules through covetousness. Some he rules through appetite. Some he rules by their temper, but he rules them. And none will ever seek to be delivered until they get their eye" |
| D.L. Moody |
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| Quotation 89 : | LUST
"Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; for no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could" |
| Jeremy Taylor |
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| Quotation 90 : | LUST
"Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul." |
| Jeremy Taylor |
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| Quotation 91 : | LUST
"The moment any mention is made of Christian liberty lust begins to boil, or insane commotions arise, if a speedy restraint is not laid on those licentious spirits by whom the best things are perverted into the worst." |
| John Calvin |
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| Quotation 92 : | LUST
"Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones that are not inherently sinful) puts us in control of our appetites rather than vice versa. It deposes our lust and per" |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 93 : | LUST
"Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, if it has its own way it will go out to the utmost sin in that kind. Every unclean thought or glance would be adultery if it could, every thought of unbelief would be atheism if all" |
| John Owen |
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| Quotation 94 : | LUST
"Human art and science are employed to make lust appealing, to make drinking popular, to present the world's ungodly standard of morals as the ideal for the young and unsuspecting youth who sees the films. I find that every indictment I made against the mo" |
| John R. Rice |
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| Quotation 95 : | LUST
"If I was to ask you tonight if you were saved? Do you say 'Yes, I am saved'. When? 'Oh so and so preached, I got baptized and...' Are you saved? What are you saved from, hell? Are you saved from bitterness? Are you saved from lust? Are you saved from chea" |
| Leonard Ravenhill |
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| Quotation 96 : | LUST
"Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin." |
| Leonard Ravenhill |
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| Quotation 97 : | LUST
"God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat." |
| Martin Luther |
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| Quotation 98 : | LUST
"Dietrich Bonhoeffer made the observation that when lust takes control, "At this moment God...loses all reality... Satan does not fill us with hatred of God, but with forgetfulness of God." What a world of wisdom there is in this statement! When we are in" |
| R. Kent Hughes |
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| Quotation 99 : | LUST
"God made every one of us a sexual being, and that is good. Attraction and arousal are the natural, spontaneous, God-given responses to physical beauty, while lust is a deliberate act of the will." |
| Rick Warren |
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| Quotation 100 : | LUST
"Excess in meat and drink clouds the mind, chokes good affections, and provokes lust. Many a man digs his own grave with his teeth." |
| Thomas Manton |
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| Quotation 101 : | LUST
"Malice is the devil's picture. Lust makes men brutish; malice makes them devilish - it is mental murder." |
| Thomas Watson |
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| Quotation 102 : | LUST
"You weren't created for boredom or burnout or bondage to sexual lust or greed or ambition but for the incomparable pleasure and matchless joy that knowing Jesus alone can bring. Only then, in Him, will you encounter the life-changing, thirst-quenching, so" |
| Sam Storms |
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| Quotation 103 : | LUST
"Hold not conference, debate, or reasoning with any lust; 'tis but a preparatory for thy admission of it. The way is at the very first flatly to deny it." |
| Thomas Fuller |
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| Quotation 104 : | LUST
"Satan can only attack us from the outside in. He may work through the lust and sensations of the body or through the mind and emotion of the soul, for those two belong to the outward man." |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 105 : | LUST
"Many of the Lord's people currently commit the same error as did the saints at Corinth. The words of the Lord are spirit and life, but these people do not accept the words accordingly. They investigate theological problems with a very cold mind and search" |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 106 : | LUST
"An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust. Samson is not alone in the history of man in failing in this regard. Delilah is still cutting the hair of man today!" |
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