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A concern for doctrinal purity should always be based on love of the Lord, not a desire to express spiritual pride.
It's not that I'm a Type-B personality. It's that I'm driven by a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy.
First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.
Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.
Place your desires before God. Pray about them and trust God to give them to you if and when they’re right for you.
Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, persists after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
We want to take action out of the desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, or obligation.
A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.
The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.
Since beings desire to exist, because to exist is a good thing: they desire the One without which they cannot exist.
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.
What is hid is unknown: for what is unknown there is no desire. [Lat., Quod latet ignotum est; ignoti nulla cupido.]
I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.
A man's not doing much until the cause he works for possesses all there is of him. Desire, when harnessed, is power.
A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.
I never worked at painting as if it were a job; it was always out of interest or for fun, a desire to try something.
It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle.
When you find your heart's desire, you'll have the key to unlocking your potential in every other part of your life.
Thought is the first faculty of man; to express it is one of his first desires; to spread it, his dearest privilege.
Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.
I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.
Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.
Man should earnestly desire the well - being of all God's creations and pray that we may have the strength to do so.
Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.
I'm a big believer in the negligee, that nearly invisible screen standing between you and the object of your desire.
You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires.
My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful
Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.
For as long as I am alive, I will not rest in my desire to lead my people out of an abyss of corruption and poverty.
It's a fantastic thing to take the risk of getting so close to your desire, expressing your obsession so absolutely.
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
I lose hope when the desire for life awakens within me; but I regain it whenever the longing for death comes upon me.
Of all Discourse , governed by desire of Knowledge, there is at last an End , either by attaining, or by giving over.
I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct.
Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?
Each country, if it so desires, will make its own revolution. And if no such desire exists, no revolution will occur.
Desire, instead of being an obstacle to an inspired and fulfilled life, is the very thing that propels you toward it.
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. I've never sought it (though I desire it) and seek it less and less.
He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.
True desire in the heart for anything good is God's proof to you sent beforehand to indicate that it's yours already.
Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.
If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
If you meet a girl in whose presence you feel a desire … to do your best, … such a young woman is worthy of your love
I have a strong desire to connect. And so when I don't get that, I leave that situation feeling particularly wounded.
My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful.
Pornography is supposed to arouse sexual desires. If pornography is a crime, when will they arrest makers of perfume?
If you're not getting the things you want, need or desire, it's because you have not accepted that you can have them.