Lust Quotes - Page 28

• Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.

  Sarah Churchwell

  Confused, Passion, Frustration

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• If men are discharged of reverence for ancient usage, they will treat this world, almost certainly, as if it were their private property, to be consumed for their sensual gratification; and thus they will destroy in their lust for enjoyment the property of future generations, of their own contemporaries, and indeed their very own capital.

  Russell Kirk

  Men, Sensual, Generations

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.44, Regnery Publishing

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• The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated.

  Frank Scoblete

  Desire, Machines, Roulette

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• Disharmony prevails when you confuse
  Lust with LOVE, while the distance
  between the two is endless!

  Rumi

  Distance, Two, Endless

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• The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'

  Plato

  Pain, Anger, Envy

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• I would to God that saints would cling to Christ half as earnestly as sinners cling to the devil. If we were as willing to suffer for God as some are to suffer for their lusts, what perseverance and zeal would be seen on all sides!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Perseverance, Suffering, Devil

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 12: Sermons 668 to 727”, p.627, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• It is the Spirit that sheds the love of God abroad in their hearts, and the love of all mankind; thereby purifying their hearts from the love of the world, from the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life. It is by Him they are delivered from anger and pride, from all vile and inordinate affections.

  John Wesley

  Heart, Eye, Pride

  John Wesley (2012). “The Works of the REV. John Wesley: With the Last Corrections of the Author, Volume 12...”, p.108

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• Little hearts, little souls give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power.

  John Piper

  Heart, Giving, Soul

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• There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been.

  Rumi

  Integrity, Moving, Wind

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2000). “Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion: Poetry and Teaching Stories of Rumi”, p.91, Shambhala Publications

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• Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.

  Christopher Morley

  Men, Thinking, Age

  Christopher Morley (1933). “Christopher Morley's omnibus: an excursion among the books of Christopher Morley”

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• what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and greenery of the eartheach generation wastes a little moreof the future with greed and lust for riches

  Don Marquis

  Men, Greed, Use

  Don Marquis (2013). “The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel”, p.603, Doubleday

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• Lust and learning. That's really all there is, isn't it?

  John Towner Williams

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• We have assembled inside this ancient / and insane theatre / To propagate our lust for life / and flee the swarming wisdom / of the streets

  Jim Morrison

  Insane, Theatre, Ancient

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• Lust carries her sharp whip At her own girdle.

  John Webster

  Girdles, Whips, Carrie

  1612 The White Devil, act 2, sc.1.

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• Remember that pride is the worst viper that is in the heart, the greatest disturber of the soul's peace and sweet communion with Christ; it was the first sin that ever was, and lies lowest in the foundation of Satan's whole building, and is the most difficultly rooted out, and is the most hidden, secret and deceitful of all lusts, and often creeps in, insensibly, into the midst of religion and sometimes under the disguise of humility.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Sweet, Lying, Heart

  Jonathan Edwards, George S. Claghorn, Perry Miller, John Edwin Smith, Norman Pettit (1998). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Letters and personal writings”

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• Sin, without strong restraints, would pull God from His throne, make the world the minion of its lusts, and all beings bow down and worship.

  Richard Cecil

  Strong, Thrones, World

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain.

  John Owen

  Christ, Vain, Mortification

  John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Mortification of Sin”, Lulu.com

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• A lot of us have developed a diet mentality toward lust. We really want to cut back on lust because we know its not healthy and it makes us feel bad. But like some rich, calorie-laden chocolate dessert, lust is just too tasty to resist completely. Surely God will understand if we break our diet and nibble a little lust now and then.

  Joshua Harris

  Cutting, Healthy, Chocolate

  Joshua Harris (2009). “Sex Is Not the Problem (Lust Is): Sexual Purity in a Lust-Saturated World”, p.25, Multnomah

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• Running, close companion to death, summons us to the most vivid acts of life. Our ancestors (we have forgotten) ran for food and for love, love and lust. For us, a prime symbol of sexuality is the automobile. For the ancients it was the chase, the foot race. Satyr and nymph, maiden and god, hot pursuit. The mythic hunters, Diana and Atalanta, available only to the males, men or gods, who could outrun them; death to all others.

  George Leonard

  Running, Men, Race

  George Leonard (2001). “The Ultimate Athlete”, p.178, North Atlantic Books

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• Satan is ever seeking to inject that poison into our hearts to distrust God's goodness - especially in connection with his commandments. That is what really lies behind all evil, lusting and disobedience. A discontent with our position and portion, a craving from something which God has wisely held from us. Reject any suggestion that God is unduly severe with you. Resist with the utmost abhorrence anything that causes you to doubt God's love and his loving-kindness toward you. Allow nothing to make you question the Father's love for his child.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Faith, Children, Kindness

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• If it is the result of a pure love, there can be nothing sensual in marriage. Chastity is something positive, not negative. It isthe virtue of the married especially. All lusts or base pleasures must give place to loftier delights. They who meet as superior beings cannot perform the deeds of inferior ones.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Marriage, Giving, Sensual

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• I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death.

  Jack Kerouac

  Years, Suffering And Death, Feelings

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.29, Penguin

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• Love can not be much younger than the lust for murder.

  Sigmund Freud

  Murder, Can Not

  Sigmund Freud (1922). “Reflections”

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• It is our needs that interpret the world; our drives and their For and Against. Every drive is a kind of lust to rule; each one has its perspective that it would like to compel all other drives to accept as a norm.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Perspective, Needs, World

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.373, Vintage

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• Satan cannot create anything new, cannot create anything at all. He must steal what God has created. Thus he twists love and God's wonderful gift of sex into lust and sadism and myriad perversions. He disfigures the heart's deep desire to worship God and persuades us to bow before lesser gods of lust or money or power.

  Catherine Marshall

  Sex, Heart, Desire

  Catherine Marshall (1995). “Catherine Marshall: Inspiration Writings”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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