Quotes about Desire
It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Happiness itself, being a perfection of the soul, is a good inherent in the soul: but that in which happiness consists, or the object that makes one happy, is something outside the soul.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Satisfaction = what you have ÷ what you want
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Or light or dark, or short or tall, she sets a spring to snare them all; all's one to her--above her fan, she'd make sweet eyes at Caliban.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
When I behold what pleasure is Pursuit, What life, what glorious eagerness it is, Then mark how full Possession falls from this, How fairer seems the blossom than the fruit
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
I'd never take a job where I had to do something that I didn't want to do.
— Clay Aiken
God's glory is the big news of the Bible, and my desire is that it would be all about me, but really it's all about God's glory.
— Max Lucado
I just want a nice guy who loves me and who I love.
— Lady Colin Campbell
Francis Collins put it, "Why would such a universal and uniquely human hunger exists, if it were not connected to some opportunity for fulfillment?
— Norman Geisler
Jean Paul Sartre: "I needed God . . . I reached out for religion, I longed for it, it was the remedy. Had it been denied me, I would have invented it myself.
— Norman Geisler