Desires Quotes

1790 Desires quotes by 1069 unique authors

Your nafs (soul/desires) is your first battlefield. If you are victorious over it, then you will find the other battlefields easier. — Hassan al-Banna
Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does this present life become to him, because he perceives better and sees more… — Thomas a Kempis
The coming of Jesus at Bethlehem brought joy to the world and to every human heart. may His coming this Christmas bring to each one… — Mother Teresa
I've always assumed there's a dark river flowing beneath my fans' desires. — Steven Morrissey
The average man doesn't wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Professional traders have always had some system or other based upon their experience and governed either by their attitude towards speculation or by their desires. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace,… — William Shakespeare
The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It… — H.G. Wells
Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous… — Susan Sontag
With faith in the merciful Redeemer and His power, potential despair turns to hope. One's very heart and desires change, and the once-appealing sin becomes… — D. Todd Christofferson
They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and… — Rose Macaulay
We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a… — Jane Addams
Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own purpose should they be too many, too confusing, or beyond a man's training to accomplish — George S. Clason
When the rhythms of our body-mind are in synch with nature's rhythms, when we are living in harmony with life, we are living in the… — Deepak Chopra
The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason… — John Stuart Mill
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's own ego and… — Pope Benedict XVI
A man that advances in spiritual and in temporal matters at the same time, minding to keep the spiritual first, will not let the temporal… — Unknown Author
Whether, therefore, we receive what we ask for, or do not receive it, let us still continue steadfast in prayer. For to fail in obtaining… — Saint John Chrysostom
And the angel spake unto me, saying: Behold the gold, and the silver, and the silks, and the scarlets, and the fine-twined linen, and the… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation... Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us. — Pope John Paul II
Do not be troubled if you do not immediately receive from God what you ask Him; for He desires to do something even greater for… — Evagrius Ponticus
Philanthropy is loving, and ameliorative, revolutionary; it wakens lofty desires, new possibilities, achievements, and energies; ... it touches thought to spiritual issues, systematizes action, and… — Mary Baker Eddy
You're meant to have whatever your heart desires. Whatever your heart wants that much is already a part of you. — Francesca Lia Block
I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then I loose it… — Elizabeth Gilbert

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