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Desire Quotes by Saint Augustine
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations…
- Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
- The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is…
- Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.
- Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?
- The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.
- What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to…
- The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but…
- Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."
- God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible…
- This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.
- The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it…
- God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his…
- What then, is correctness of speech but the maintenance of the practice of others, as established by the authority of ancient speakers? But the weaker…
- Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.
- Do you desire security? Here you have it. The Lord says to you, "I will never abandon you, I will always be with you." If…
- If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are…
- He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally…
- Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied.
More Desire Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle
- 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 men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. — Richard Bach
- One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out… — C.S. Lewis
- Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort’s world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling