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Desire Quotes by Thomas Merton
- One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in…
- My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain…
- The desire to kill is like the desire to attack another with a red hot iron. I have to pick up the incandescent metal and…
- It is not merely our own desire but the desire of Christ in His Spirit that drives us to grow in love. Those who seldom…
- Since no man ever can, or could, live by himself and for himself alone, the destinies of thousands of other people were bound to be…
- I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
- The secret of my full identity is hidden in Him. He alone can make me who I am, or rather who I will be when…
- To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no pity is to…
- I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in…
- You are made in the image of what you desire.
- O God, teach me to be satisfied with my own helplessness in the spiritual life. Teach me to be content with Your grace that comes…
- 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…
- Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose,…
- We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of…
- Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor…
- We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of…
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