All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain.
It is not enough to be abstinent with other people, you also have to be abstinent alone. The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery. You can't masturbate without lust!. . . You're going to be pleasing each other. And if he already knows what pleases him and he can please himself, then why am I in the picture?
What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.
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.
I must suppose that reading wonderful writers may, inadvertently, teach an avid reader a great deal -- not only about life and other matters, but about how to write. Therefore doubtless I have benefited from frequent immersions in the glowing genius of others. It would be nice to think so. (I do actually think so). But to improve my skills will never be the prompting force of my reading -- that's just literary lust.
I eyed her like a thirsty traveler in the desert looks at a pail of water.
Regulators are power-lusting mediocrities.
When I went to war, I did not go making geopolitical calculations. I went to war with a lust.
Renounce all things, and thou shalt find all things; give up thy lust, and thou shalt find rest.
I think that love should be greater than your lust for each other.
I believe in lust at first sight. And attraction. But not love.
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love’s a dictator.
There is a great force in renunciation of power that those who are blinded by the lust for domination cannot understand because those who truly love do not desire power.
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
Lechery is secretive, but must finally reveal itself to at least one.
I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh.
Love forgives the lover even his lust.
They also held that the way to salvation was to give way to lust and temptation in all things. And no greater percentage of them turned up here than of any other religion. Amusing, isn't it?