Desires Quotes
1790 Desires quotes by 1069 unique authors
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The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.
— Guillermo del Toro
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Create content that satisfies your uber goals and desires.
— Tom Webster
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By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.
— Anne Desclos
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The Art of Peace is medicine for a sick world. There is evil and disorder in the world, because people have forgotten that all things…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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I had utterly abandoned myself to Him. Could any choice be as wonderful as His will? Could any place be safer than the center of…
— V. Raymond Edman
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It is right to love beauty and to desire it; but God desires us to love and seek first the highest beauty, that which is…
— Ellen G. White
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The art of living deliberately is the art of examining this vast storehouse of beliefs, dropping the out-moded ones, consciously choosing those that serve your…
— Unknown Author
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God desires from you the least degree of purity of conscience more than all the works you can perform.
— John of the Cross
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He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.
— Alphonsus Liguori
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He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.
— Philip Neri
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Jesus Christ, Lord of all things! You see my heart, you know my desires. Possess all that I am - you alone. I am your…
— Unknown Author
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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…
— Saint Augustine
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A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated.
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent.
— Anthony of Padua
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The man who is poor in spirit desires and says with his whole heart, Hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done,…
— John of Kronstadt
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The first duty of a Christian, of a disciple and follower of Jesus Christ, is to deny himself. To deny oneself means to give up…
— Unknown Author
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[God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look how mighty I am, and go down upon your knees and worship," for power alone…
— George MacDonald
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I am not saying that you should renounce things, that you should escape from your home and renounce the marketplace. No, don't misunderstand my statement.…
— Rajneesh
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It is my observation that all human hearts are the same and that their ultimate desire is also the same. This soul wants happiness, perfect…
— Rajneesh
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But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish desires and schemes that plunge them into ruin and…
— Saint Timothy
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I had to learn how to give my best effort to God and trust him with the results. I have to learn to have enough…
— Jeremy Lin
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Just as order gave life and beauty to the earth when it was dark and void, so it does to us. Obedience helps us develop…
— James E. Faust
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When you face two options and each seems to please God, consider the one that displays God's glory, power and strength. This makes room for…
— Priscilla Shirer
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As we gaze into the mirror it holds up for us, we too easily imagine that what we behold is Nature when in fact we…
— William Cronon
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The full meaning of life, the collective meaning of all human desires, is fundamentally a mystery beyond our grasp. As a young man, I chafed…
— Eugene Wigner
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