Famous Quotes about desire

François Fénelon quote #255 from Spiritual Progress

True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitude of our words for our Father knoweth what things we have need of before we ask Him. The true prayer is that of the heart and the heart prays only for what it desires. To pray then is to desire -- but to desire what God would have us desire. He who asks what he does not from the bottom of his heart desire is mistaken in thinking that he prays.
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Richelle E. Goodrich quote #151 from Smile Anyway: Quotes

Is anything truly impossible Or is it that the path to our goals appears too unclear to follow It seems to me that if you seek hard enough pray hard enough you usually stumble across a scattering of breadcrumbs that marks the trail leading to the goal you once considered beyond your reach.
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Thomas à Kempis quote #110 from The Imitation of Christ

Pardon me also and deal mercifully with me as often as I think of anything besides You in prayer. For I confess truly that I am accustomed to be very much distracted. Very often I am not where bodily I stand or sit rather I am where my thoughts carry me. Where my thoughts are there am I and frequently my thoughts are where my love is. That which naturally delights or is by habit pleasing comes to me quickly. Hence You Who are Truth itself have plainly said For where your treasure is there is your heart also. If I love heaven I think willingly of heavenly things. If I love the world I rejoice at the happiness of the world and grieve at its troubles. If I love the flesh I often imagine things that are carnal. If I love the spirit I delight in thinking of spiritual matters. For whatever I love I am willing to speak and hear about.
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Richelle E. Goodrich quote #169 from Smile Anyway: Quotes

Is anything truly impossible Or is it that the path to our goals appears too unclear to follow It seems to me that if you seek hard enough pray hard enough you usually stumble across a scattering of breadcrumbs that marks the trail leading to the goal you once considered beyond your reach.
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Angela Carter quote #46 from The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

She stayed beside me until I slept waveringly brilliantly hooded in diaphanous scarlet and occasionally she left an imperative written in lipstick on my dusty windowpane. BE AMOROUS she exhorted one night and another night BE MYSTERIOUS Some nights later she scribbled WHEN YOU BEGIN TO THINK YOU LOSE THE POINT.
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Oksana Rus famous quote #160

You spoke to her in hidden dreams...and smiled at her through open doors. She felt your secret love surround her at times. And while alone she felt your breath heartbeat and more... Serenity of hers is never-ending soothing....it leads lures calls you... Ah timeless burning flame.. Her kiss is ocean salty water you drink and thirst increases...you long and pray for more...
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