Ambition is the ecclesiastical lust.
If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
Why is it that everything I eat when I’m with you is so delicious?’ I laughed. ‘Could it be that you’re satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?
We have sexual lust even though we know perfectly well that, because we're using contraception, it is not going to result in the propagation of our genes. That doesn't matter, because the lust was built into our brains at a time when there was no contraception.
No one is immune to temptation. Not even a hero. Not even a nobody. Not even people like you and me. Lust is never very far away. And just when you least expect it, there it is again.
But we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this that you call love to bea sect or scion. . . . It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will.
For that is what a child should be, and seldom is, the product of man and woman, of opposing natures, unified, however temporarily, by the amazing, circling, weaving dance of love and lust and God's involvement in it.
Sex is not the problem [Lust is]
It's a curious, wanting thing.
People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterward repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before.
Lust is about satisfaction. Love is about sacrificing, serving, surrendering, sharing, supporting, and even suffering for others. Most love songs are actually lust songs.
Love is the great conqueror of lust.
Nothing is so effective in keeping one young and full of lust as a discriminating palate thoroughly satisfied at least once a day
Lust weakens both body and mind.
It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.
They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.
Exuberance is Beauty. " "If a thing loves, it is infinite. " "Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. " "The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.
There is no disease so destructive as lust.
The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.
Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality is not "idealistic," no matter what its purpose. Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.