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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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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