Quotes about Lust
and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.
- Ezekiel 23:20
But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
- Matthew 5:28
Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
- Romans 1:27
But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
- 1 Corinthians 7:9
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
- Galatians 5:19
not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
- 1 Thessalonians 4:5
Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
- James 1:15
For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.
- 1 Peter 4:3
Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.
- 2 Peter 2:14
James 1:14, 15: "But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
- Lewis Sperry Chafer
Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
- Marquis de Sade
One of the reasons lust is bad (not the only reason) is that it makes you stupid. Like any addiction, it blinds your vision to everything else and focuses it on the one thing that is the object of your addiction.
- Peter Kreeft