Appetite Quote by John Tillotson

“Man is the vainest of all creatures that have their being upon earth. As long as heaven vouchsafes him health and strength, he thinks…

— Homer

Christianity has aimed to deliver us from a life determined by nature, from the appetites as actuating us, and so has meant that man…

— Max Stirner

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from…

— James Allen

When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones…

— Mencius

“When heaven is about to confer a great responsibility on any man, it will exercise his mind with suffering, subject his sinews and bones…

— Meng Tzu

Only God can fully satisfy the hungry heart of man.

— Hugh Black

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their…

— William Blake

I think, when we start dealing with heaven or hell issues, what we really need to gravitate toward is that man is an eternal…

— T. D. Jakes

There's a capacity for appetite... that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy

— John Steinbeck

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.

— C. S. Lewis

In no other action can our Savior be considered more tender or more loving than in this, in which He, as it were, annihilates…

— Saint Francis de Sales

Man is a hungry being. But he is hungry for God. Behind all the hunger of our life is God. All desire is finally…

— Alexander Schmemann