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Of all the wishes people had brought him—money, love, revenge—this seemed to him the most poignant and the one most deserving of fulfillment. A little black girl who wanted to rise up out of the pit of her blackness and see the world with blue eyes. His outrage grew and felt like power.
— Toni Morrison
It is possible to be so full from enjoying junk food that you lose your appetite for what truly satisfies.
— Tony Evans
Desire for God without doctrine is blind; doctrine without desire is empty. The
— Kevin Vanhoozer
Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
— Khalil Gibran
Passion always looks like sacrifice to people who are not in love.)
— Kris Vallotton
How you manage your appetite for reward is vital to who you are becoming.
— Kris Vallotton
We cannot be tempted with something we have no desire for.
— Kris Vallotton
There's a deep desire among Christian women to serve God, heart and soul, with their Christian brothers. Yet, in the church--even in some of the best situations--male/female realtionships are the source of some of our biggest hurts, conflicts, misunderstandings, and tensions on both sides.
— Carolyn Custis James
There are two things men have never been able to satisfy: their curiosity and their greed.
— George Lucas
I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.
— George W. Bush
At the end of what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
— Graham Greene
What makes life dreary is want of motive.
— George Eliot