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It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be.

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them

The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me

My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world.

All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.

Men know almost nothing about desire, they think it has to do with sexual activity or can be discharged that way. But sex is a substitute, like money or language. Sometimes I just want to stop seeing.

Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.

The regenerate man's desires are rectified; they are set on God himself, and the things above... Before, he saw no beauty in Christ, for which he was to be desired; but now he is all he desires, he is altogether lovely... regenerating grace sets the affections so firmly on God, that the man is disposed, at God's command, to quit his hold of every thing else, in order to keep his hold of Christ... If the stream of our affections were never thus turned, we are, doubtless, going down the stream into the pit.

If a man be new-born, he will desire the sincere milk of the word.

The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see

Mind led body_x000D_to the edge of the precipice._x000D_They stared in desire_x000D_at the naked abyss._x000D_If you love me, said mind,_x000D_take that step into silence._x000D_If you love me, said body,_x000D_turn and exist.

Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature

Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.

I believe that dreamers who simply imagine things that would be nice but are not possible don’t sufficiently appreciate the laws of the universe to understand the true implications of their desires, much less how to achieve them.

It is a happy circumstance that when nature gives us true burning desires, she also gives us the means to satisfy them. Those who want to win and lack skill can get someone with skill to help them.

I'm saying let's demonstrate what Jesus had done in us so the world may see a new way, God's way, Jesus' way the picture of redemption that Jesus has done in us. So Jesus redeems us and we desire to go to the world and demonstrate that so that others can see what redemption looks like.

Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man's loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to it. Gnosis desires dominion over being; in order to seize control of being the Gnostic constructs his system. The building of systems is a gnostic form of reasoning, not a philosophical one.

I must say a few words about memory. It is full of holes. If you were to lay it out upon a table, it would resemble a scrap of lace. I am a lover of history . . . [but] history has one flaw. It is a subjective art, no less so than poetry or music. . . . The historian writes a truth. The memoirist writes a truth. The novelist writes a truth. And so on. My mother, we both know, wrote a truth in The 19th Wife– a truth that corresponded to her memory and desires. It is not the truth, certainly not. But a truth, yes . . . Her book is a fact. It remains so, even if it is snowflaked with holes.

If there is no deep yearning for a life that is well pleasing to Him, if there is no _x000D_stimulating desire to know Him and His Word, church membership is just like _x000D_a young man falling in love with a furnished apartment and marrying an electric _x000D_stove, a refrigerator, a vacuum cleaner, a garbage disposal, and a wet mop! _x000D_That is just about all it amounts to. Let's stop playing church today and start _x000D_loving Christ and living for Him!

It is a sin when I place myself deliberately in the place of temptation… either because I enjoy the prospect or because I’m not determined enough in my desire to overcome it.