Quotes about Desires

We live in a culture that desires intimacy without responsibility and pleasure without commitment.

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.

Kindness is not something that we put on for certain occasions, like a piece of jewelry; rather, it is an attribute of God's that He desires to reproduce in us.

A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.

Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.

Resolve today to think and talk only about the things you want in life and refuse to talk about the things you don't want.

Polybius:     Since the masses of the people are inconstant, full of unruly desires, passionate, and reckless of consequences, they must be filled with fears to keep them in order. The ancients did well, therefore, to invent gods, and the belief in punishment after death.

Part of the beauty of the monastic life lies in the ability to live simply with few desires and to consume only what you need.

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.