Quotes about Inordinate
We continue to build temples. We desire that as many members as possible have an opportunity to attend the temple without having to travel inordinate distances.
- Thomas Monson
Better is it now to purify the soul from sin, than to cling to sins from which we must be purged hereafter. Truly we deceive ourselves by the inordinate love which we bear towards the flesh.
- Thomas a Kempis
Attachment to spiritual things is.. just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
- Thomas Merton
Many of our most cherished plans for the glory of God are only inordinate passion in disguise. And the proof of this is found in the excitement which they produce. The God of peace is never glorified by violence.
- Thomas Merton
of a corrupt spirit, that breaks over all bounds, and loves inordinate vastnesse; that is it we ought to be carefull of.
- Jonathan Edwards
It is because of our fear of death that we want more military strength and more guns. It is because of our fear of death that we want to keep others from having access to our store of material blessings from God. It is because of our fear of death that we act in abusive ways toward each other and toward ourselves. It is because of that same fear that we have an inordinate need to be right in ways that excommunicate the other.
- Walter Brueggemann