Lust Quotes - Page 32

• Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

  William Blake

  Desire, Goats, Infinite

  "The Voice of the Devil". "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell". Book by William Blake, www.bartleby.com. 1793.

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• How could you do nothing to him, if you fought so hard?” she asked. “I’m lust and he’s wrath!” he yelled. “I’m a lover, he’s a fighter!” Virtue - A Fairy Tale

  Amanda Hocking

  Wrath, Lovers, Fairy Tale

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• Church is missing transcendence. My generation was raised on a religion of moral control. Do this. Don't do that. And a lot of self-help religion. Feel better. Get out of debt. Six ways to overcome your fears. Seven ways not to lust. Ultimately that message didn't work. It was empty. There was no transcendence. The omniscient, omnipresent, all-powerful God of the universe wasn't the focus.

  Matt Chandler

  Powerful, Feel Better, Self

  Source: skyejethani.com

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• Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Grace, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma”

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• Ubuntu is not a biblical concept but an ancient African one. Nevertheless it falls back on one simple thing: that humans have been created for togetherness, and what drives us apart is greed, lust for power, and a sense of exclusion, but those are aberrations.

  Allan Boesak

  Philosophy, Fall, Biblical

  Source: reflections.yale.edu

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• Renounce all things, and thou shalt find all things; give up thy lust, and thou shalt find rest.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Giving Up, Asceticism, Renounce

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• Gluttony and satiety in food produce defiled lust, while free association with women enflames the fire of lusts ... At the time of struggle with defilement, punish your thoughts with lack of nourishment, so that you will think not of defilements, but of hunger, and reject the invitation to go visiting.

  Nilus of Sinai

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• How was it that destruction could be so beautiful? Was there something in the scale of it? Was there some shadow in people, lusting for it? Or was it just a coincidental combination of the elements, the final proof that beauty has no moral dimension?

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Beauty, Beautiful, People

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Red Mars”, p.642, Spectra

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• I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between.

  Kevin James

  Ambition, Character, Writing

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• Do you want to be safe from the influence, ways, and lusts of the world and the flesh (I John 2:16)? From the sins which so easily entangles us (Hebrews 12:1)? Then delight in yourself in the Lord, in His provision, in His Word. Faithfully feed on the things that possess true substance and real meaning. When you remember that "all Scripture is given by inspiration by God and is profitable" (2 Timothy 3:16) and partake of such divine substance, then you are fed, you are led and you are safe!

  Elizabeth George

  Christian, Peace, Real

  Elizabeth George (2009). “Quiet Confidence for a Woman's Heart: The Power of God's Restoration and Healing”, p.26, Harvest House Publishers

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• The nurse of infidelity is sensuality.

  Richard Cecil

  Cheating, Nurse, Infidelity

  Richard Cecil, Josiah PRATT (the Elder.) (1854). “Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... With a view of his character, by the Rev. Josiah Pratt ... To which is prefixed a memoir of his life signed: J. Cecil . Tenth edition”, p.81

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• Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Passion, Soul, Captivity

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1848). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Sermons”, p.138

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• It has been left to the last Christians, or rather to the first Christians fully committed to blaspheming and denying Christianity, to invent a new kind of worship of Sex, which is not even a worship of Life. It has been left to the very latest Modernists to proclaim an erotic religion which at once exalts lust and forbids fertility . . . The new priests abolish the fatherhood and keep the feast - to themselves.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Sex, Erotic

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• Do we really want the people who created $40 trillion of unfunded liabilities in Social Security and Medicare in charge of our health care? Faceless bureaucrats, power-lusting politicians, and people spending other people's money are a recipe for disaster.

  Ed Crane

  People, Want, Care

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• Christians alone are in a position to rescue the perishing. We dare not settle down to try to live as if things were 'normal.' Nothing is normal while sin and lust and death roam the world, pouncing upon one and another till the whole population has been destroyed.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Trying, Population

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• Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Heart, Passion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• There is no halfway or lackadaisical way to fight lust. If you're not fighting your sin, you're befriending your sin.

  Trip Lee

  Fighting, Befriending, Way

  Trip Lee (2015). “Rise: Get Up and Live in God's Great Story”, p.113, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Sin is not only manifested in certain acts that are forbidden by divine command. Sin also appears in attitudes and dispositions and feelings. Lust and hate are sins as well as adultery and murder. And, in the traditional Christian view, despair and chronic boredom - unaccompanied by any vicious act - are serious sins. They are expressions of man's separation from God, as the ultimate good, meaning, and end of human existence.

  Mortimer Adler

  Christian, Attitude, Hate

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• Lust is raw selfishness. It's all about my wants, my needs, my pleasure. Most love songs are actually lust songs.

  Rick Warren

  Song, Selfishness, Want

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from May 30, 2013

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• Some weigh their pleasure by their lust, Their wisdom by their rage of will, Their treasure is their only trust; And cloake'  d craft their store of skill. But all the pleasure that I find Is to maintain a quiet mind.

  Edward Dyer

  Skills, Mind, Treasure

  1588 'In Praise of a Contented Mind'.

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• When I went to the scientific doctor
  I realised what a lust there was in him to wreak his so-called science on me
  and reduce me to the level of a thing.
  So I said: Good-morning! and left him.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Morning, Doctors, Levels

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6965, Delphi Classics

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• Love is the lotus, lust is the mud the lotus arises out of.

  Rajneesh

  Love Is, Lotuses, Mud

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• For lust of knowing what should not be known, we take the Golden Road to Samarkand.

  James Elroy Flecker

  Knowledge, Knowing, Golden

  The Golden Journey to Samarkand pt. 1, "Epilogue" (1913)

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• The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave markets, to gratify the brutal lust of those who bear the name of Christians.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Christian, Tyrants, Names

  Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.51

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• People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterwards repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before. Your desire for the illusory is a wing, by means of which a seeker might ascend to Reality. When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame and that fantasy flees. Preserve the wing and don't indulge such lust, so that the wing of desire may bear you to Paradise. People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.

  Rumi

  Mean, Reality, Wings

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.171, Shambhala Publications

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