Desires Quotes

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. — Henri Frederic Amiel
You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change. — Francesca Annis
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. — Susan B. Anthony
There are some desires that are not desirable. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned,… — Edward McKendree Bounds
In the matter of fellowship God looks not at how much we apprehend of His will but rather at what our attitude towards His will… — Watchman Nee
Every man's path is for himself; let him accomplish his own desires that he may thus be able to rise above them to the eternal… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Hardships can deprive mortals of the power to ACT. But at the same time, hardships can be the means of eternal growth in ATTITUDE and… — Dallin H. Oaks
The self (Soul) is the constant-witness consciousness. Through all months, seasons and years, through all divisions of time, the past, present and future the consciousness… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
After the demands of the ego and its greed surrendered, the struggle for fulfillment of personal desires lessens; life takes on a new zest like… — Sivananda Radha Saraswati
Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront… — Ajahn Brahm
Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness and smallness. Desire… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Desires achieved increase thirst like salt water. — Milarepa
A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles - whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled - is vulnerable to… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
Liberty consists in doing what one desires. — John Stuart Mill
It is not the mouth that is the main thing to be looked at in prayer, but whether the heart is so full of affection… — John Bunyan
Notice carefully every word here. It is not our prayer which draws Jesus into our hearts. Nor is it our prayer which moves Jesus to… — Ole Hallesby
If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires… — Philip Yancey
Real prayer is communion with God, so that there will be common thoughts between His mind and ours. What is needed is for Him to… — Arthur W. Pink
The prevailing idea seems to be, that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and that I expect Him to… — Arthur W. Pink
A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment. — Albert Einstein
Should one ask: 'how do I cope with a well-ordered enemy host about to attack me?' I reply: seize something he cherishes and he will… — Sun Tzu
Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire. — Epictetus
God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us… — Anselm of Canterbury
We must speak to God as a friend speaks to his friend, servant to his master; now asking some favor, now acknowledging our faults, and… — Ignatius Loyola

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