Quotes about Desire

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

CG Jung:Thoughts grow in me like a forest, populated by many different animals. But man is domineering in his thinking, and therefore he kills the pleasure of the forest and that of the wild animals. Man is violent in his desire, and he himself becomes a darker forest and a sickened forest animal. Just as I have freedom in the world, I also have freedom in my thoughts. Freedom is conditional.

Alcohol is the reduced form of spirit. Therefore, many people, lacking spirit, take to drink. They fill themselves with alcohol.

Unlived life is a destructive, irresistible force that works softly but inexorably.

You are a slave of what you need in your soul.

The love of heaven must drive out the inordinate love of what is earthly.

One thing we hear from churchless and churched people alike is that they intensely desire the local church to provide what no other group can offer: an experience of the presence of God.

A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.