What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing.
You're not gonna get through life without being worshipful or devoted to something. You're either devoted to your job, or to your desires. So the best way to spend your life is to try to be devoted to prayer, to Allah.
He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes himself prisoner to his own tongue.
Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored.
If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Should one ask: 'how do I cope with a well-ordered enemy host about to attack me?' I reply: seize something he cherishes and he will conform to your desires.
who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.
Make a list of your current wants and desires. Next to each, put down what benefit or payoff there would be when you achieve it. Look at this list often throughout the day and before retiring at night.
Sometimes we forget that our Heavenly Father desires that each of us have this joy.
When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.
The parliament is the supreme decision-making and legislative body in any democracy. It reflects the collective desires of the citizens and makes laws.
If we go too far down the road of choosing the genetic traits of children, my worry is that parenting will be less a kind of school for humility than it should be, and we will become too accustomed to regarding children as instruments of our ambition and of our desires.
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.
Happiness does not lie in getting people and things outside of you lined up exactly to suit your desires.
If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.
Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in turn finds ever new ways of modifying his technology. Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man's love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth.
I will be led and taught of the Holy Spirit. God desires full development, use and activity of our faculties. The Holy Spirit can and will guide me in direct proportion to the time and effort I will expend to know and do the will of God. I must read the Bible to know God's will. At every point I will obey and do I will die to self. I will begin to ask God to put me in a service of constant circumstances where to live Christ I must die to self. I will be alive unto God. That I may learn to love Him with my heart, mind, soul, and body.
Desires are seeds waiting for their season to sprout. From a single seed of desire, whole forests grow.
Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.