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Desire Quotes by John Owen
- The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here…
- 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…
- Christ is the meat, the bread, the food of our souls. Nothing is in him of a higher spiritual nourishment than his love, which we…
- There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed upon. It will always be so while we live in…
- For to pretend that men may live habitually sinful lives without any attempt by the Spirit to mortify sin in them, nor with any desire…
- What do we want? What would we be at? What do our souls desire? Is it not that we might have a more full, clear,…
- On Christ’s glory I would fix all my thoughts and desires, and the more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted…
More Desire Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle
- Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. — Richard Bach
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly… — Chinua Achebe
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine
- Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. — Saint Augustine