Lust Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• I'd call it love if love didn't take so many years but lust too is a jewel.

  Adrienne Rich

  Sex, Jewels, Years

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “Collected Early Poems: 1950-1970”, p.181, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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• 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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• 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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• Till men are deeply humbled, they can part with Christ and Salvation for a lust, for a little wordly gain, for that which is less than nothing. But when God hath enlightened their consciences, and broken their hearts, then they would give a world for Christ.

  Richard Baxter

  Heart, Men, Broken

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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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• 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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• Most people understand that sexual lust has to do with propagating genes. Copulation in nature tends to lead to reproduction and so to more genetic copies. But in modern society, most copulations involve contraception, designed precisely to avoid reproduction. Altruism probably has origins like those of lust.

  Richard Dawkins

  People, Modern, Genes

  Source: inters.org

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• People who have lust in their heart as just as guilty as those who commit adultery.

  Jimmy Carter

  Heart, People, Adultery

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• There's a lust to get on TV.

  Doug Benson

  Tvs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I for one must get it out.

  C. S. Lewis

  Strong, Writing, Doe

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• How thin is the crust of order over the fires of human appetite and the lust for naked power.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Power, Fire, Order

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• With our mad lust for Uniformity and a Higher Standard of Living and Expanding Markets, we go to a country like Afghanistan and cruelly try to jerk her forward two thousand years in two decades, giving no thought to the profound shock this must be to her national psychology.

  Dervla Murphy

  Country, Years, Two

  Dervla Murphy (1987). “Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle”, p.76, The Overlook Press

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• Pornography is essentially reductive, an exercise in the nothing-but mode, a depersonalizing of the human beings involved, a showing-up of human lust as nothing but an affair of the genitals.

  Storm Jameson

  Exercise, Showing Up, Affair

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• How crazy craziness makes everyone, how irrationally afraid. The madness hidden in each of us, called to, identified, aroused like a lust. And against that the jaw sets. The more I fear my own insanity the more I must punish yours.

  Kate Millett

  Crazy, Insanity, Madness

  Kate Millett (1990). “The Loony-bin Trip”, p.68, University of Illinois Press

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• the most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the disinclinations of the flesh, its indolence and sluggishness, our tendency to become creatures of habit.

  Sigrid Undset

  Flames, Temptation, Desire

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• In our lust for measurement, we frequently measure that which we can rather than that which we wish to measure... and forget that there is a difference.

  Udny Yule

  Differences, Wish, Statistics

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• Love is not lust. The two (love and lust) are poles apart. Love liberates while lust binds.

  Narayanananda Swami.

  Love Is, Two, Two Loves

  "A Practical Guide to Samadhi". Book by Swami Narayanananda, p. 144 (2001 edition), 1957.

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• I fall into books the way I fall into lust - wholly, hungrily.

  Rebecca McClanahan

  Book, Fall, Reading

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• Love and friendship, two of life's abiding rewards, are endangered species in Hollywood. People crave both, mistaking alliance for friendship, lust for love, and ambition for both.

  Lynda Obst

  Ambition, Two, People

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• While there may not be spiritual oppression involved in your battle [against lust], there'll always be opposition. The enemy is constantly near your ear. He doesn't want you to win this fight, and he knows the lies that so often break a man's confidence and his will to win. Expect to hear lies and plenty of them. satan's lie: 'You're the only one dealing with this problem. If anyone ever finds out, you'll be the laughingstock of the church!' The truth: Most men deal with this problem, so no one will laugh.

  Steve Arterburn

  Spiritual, Lying, Fighting

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