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Desire Quotes by Maximus the Confessor
- If you make provision for the desires of the flesh and bear a grudge against your neighbor on account of something transitory, you worship the…
- When a man's intellect is constantly with God, his desire grows beyond all measure into an intense longing for God and his incensiveness is completely…
- Without the power of intelligence there is no capacity for spiritual knowledge; and without spiritual knowledge we cannot have the faith from which springs that…
- Our forefather Adam... used his freedom to turn toward what was worse and to direct his desire away from what had been permitted to what…
- He who is a beginner on the way must not be brought to practise the commandments by kindness alone, but must more often be induced…
- The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those who are not…
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