Our Desires Quotes

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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. — Saint Augustine
Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable. — Ezra Taft Benson
Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord. — Ezra Taft Benson
We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new… — Daniel J. Boorstin
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. — Henri Frederic Amiel
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
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
Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us. — Samuel Johnson
The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much. — John Calvin
Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The electric energy which motivates us is not within our bodies at all. It is a part of the universal supply which flows through us… — Walter Russell
The benefits [of the resurrection] are innumerable. To list a few: Our illnesses don't seem nearly so final; Our fears fade and lose their grip;… — Charles R. Swindoll
This is a very fundamental reason why man cannot become meditative - or why very few men have dared to become meditative. Our training is… — Rajneesh
It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins. — Norm MacDonald
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
How many of us would be able to overcome our desires and resist the temptation of sin? How many of us even lower our gaze… — Ibn Taymiyyah
The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires. — Jean-Luc Godard

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