Our Desires Quotes
126 quotes by 111 authors
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
— Saint Augustine
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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
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Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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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
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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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
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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
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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
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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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Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
— Samuel Johnson
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The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.
— John Calvin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.
— Jean-Luc Godard
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