Lusts Quotes
44 quotes by 42 authors
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When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to sink, what can save you,…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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I seemed like a baby bird keeping its truly innocent animal lusts hidden under its wing. I was being tempted, not by the desire of…
— Yukio Mishima
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Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts. He who doth not kill…
— John Owen
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Therefore tremble, O man, at any power thou hast, except thou usest it for God. Art thou strong in body; who hath thy strength? God,…
— William Gurnall
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It is no policy to let thy lusts have arms, which are sure to rise and declare against thee when thine enemy comes.
— William Gurnall
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Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery.
— Hart Crane
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There hath not one tear dropped from thy tender eye against thy lusts, the love of this world, or for more communion with Jesus Christ,…
— John Bunyan
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Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of…
— Irving Babbitt
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There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts…
— George Gillespie
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'Wars, factions, and fighting,' said Socrates as he looked forward from his last hour, 'have no other origin than this same body and its lusts...…
— Socrates
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To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are…
— Seneca the Younger
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We overcome the accuser of our brothers and sisters, we overcome our consciences, we overcome our bad tempers, we overcome our defeats, we overcome our…
— D. A. Carson
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Dancing, is, for the most part, attended with many amorous smiles, wanton compliments, unchaste kisses, scurrilous songs and sonnets, effeminate music, lust provoking attire, ridiculous…
— William Prynne
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A man lusts to become a god…and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder?
— David Zindell
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Good education is not regeneration. Education may chain up men's lusts, but cannot change their hearts.
— Thomas Boston
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The flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh.
— F B Meyer
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The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated.
— Frank Scoblete
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Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if heaven were a…
— John Tillotson
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I would to God that saints would cling to Christ half as earnestly as sinners cling to the devil. If we were as willing to…
— Charles Spurgeon
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