Desire Quote by Pope John Paul II

“Redemption becomes possible when we strive to find selflessness, conscience, and a capacity to love within ourselves where before there was none.”

— Jim Ford

There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and some are…

— Guy Davenport

There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and some are…

— Guy Davenport

“An inexhaustible capacity to engage in sin is what makes human beings capable of living a virtuous life. To err is human; to seek…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

— Saint Augustine

“This willful, compulsive, moralistic approach to man’s transformation always obstructs it—for it still implies that very illusion of self-mastery which stands in the way.…

— Alan W. Watts

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passions

— St Thomas Aquinas

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

— Jose Marti

Self-seeking is the gate by which a soul departs from peace; and total abandonment to the will of God, that by which it returns.

— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

Self-mastery is a challenge for every individual. Only we can control our appetites and passions. Self-mastery cannot be bought by money or fame. It…

— James E. Faust

“According to Maximus the Confessor in "One Hundred Chapters of Love", the key to directing and increasing one's desire for God is the acquisition…

— James K.A. Smith

“The extinction of desire stands in stark contrast to the redemption of desire.”

— Joshua Ryan Butler