Desire Quotes - Page 97

No one can desire the love of God without first knowing human love.

Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.

I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

The desire for knowledge shapes a man.

It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go thither alone.

We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda

LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?

To have done no man a wrong...to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitude-this is to be a man.

It is the will of our heavenly Father that we should come to Him freely and confidently and make known our desires to Him, just as we would have our children come freely and of their own accord and speak to us about the things they would like to have.

Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.

Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.

What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?

It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life.

Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity of the American people should be reflected in this legislation, though sadly, they are silenced.

She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover's desires

I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse this mercifulness.

You have a limited time to stay on earth. You must try to use that period for the purpose of transforming your country into what you desire it to be: a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist country. And that is a great task.

I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.

I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.

The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.