Quotes about Desire
Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)
- St. Augustine
God has made me desire always what he most wants to give me.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.
- John Donne
He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
- St. Augustine
They were like two enemies in love with one another.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
God created us with sexual passion so that there would be language to describe what it means to cleave to him in love and what it means to turn away from him to others.
- John Piper
You are what you love.
- St. Augustine
I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
- St. Augustine
In order to profit from this path [of prayer] and ascend to the dwelling places we desire, the important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so, do that which best stirs you to love.
- Teresa of Avila
For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.
- Thomas Merton