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Desire Quotes by Saint Basil
- When you have become God's in the measure he desires, then he himself will bestow you upon others; unless, to your greater glory, he chooses…
- When a sunbeam falls on a transparent substance, the substance itself becomes brilliant, and radiates light from itself. So too Spirit bearing souls, illumined by…
- All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking after the grace…
- By nature, men desire the beautiful.
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