Quotes about Desire

Mental tranquility and physical health are coveted, not the approbation of the Lord.

What was there in me that could merit esteem,   Or give the Creator delight? 'Twas even so, Father, I ever must sing,   Because it seemed good, in Thy sight.

Is God obliged to force His gift on those who value it not?

O unsaved reader, if a work of grace has already begun in your heart so that you realize your wretchedness and long for that peace and rest which this poor world is unable to give, fix it firmly in your mind that One only can give you what you seek.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

I will aim at the moon to reach the highest bounty.

I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

She has mischievious moments when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island...

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

When a man says money can do anything that settles it: he hasn't got any. When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.