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If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you ha...

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The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie.It is not the banquet of the wicked...

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The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.

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John Piper (artist)When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy

Now there was only one hope, the sovereign grace of God. God would have to transform my heart to do ...

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John Piper (artist)When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy

If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you ha...

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The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie.It is not the banquet of the wicked...

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Now there was only one hope, the sovereign grace of God. God would have to transform my heart to do ...

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John Piper (artist)When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy

The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.

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John Piper (artist)When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy

If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you ha...

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The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie.It is not the banquet of the wicked...

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Now there was only one hope, the sovereign grace of God. God would have to transform my heart to do ...

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John Piper (theologian)When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy

The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.

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John Piper (theologian)When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy

If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you ha...

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The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie.It is not the banquet of the wicked...

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Now there was only one hope, the sovereign grace of God. God would have to transform my heart to do ...

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John Piper (theologian)When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy

The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.

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John Piper (theologian)When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy

I do not mind when you tell me what you want and put that first instead of last.

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John ScalziThe Sagan Diary

It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are we...

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It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to...

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We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control grow ...

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The moral, I suppose, would be that the first requirements for a heroic career are the knightly virt...

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[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, beca...

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Joseph CampbellThou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

I'm no great fan of the phallus, and have made my own views known on this subject before, so I do no...

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We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no evidence. We should not hold beliefs ...

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Men freely believe that which they desire.

We mistakenly assume that bodily survival has a higher precedence than ego survival. This is simply ...

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Karl MarlantesWhat It is Like to Go to War

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted ...

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INTENSE SEXUAL DESIRE IS THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLDJaney dreams of cocks. Janey sees cocks inst...

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Kathy AckerEurydice in the Underworld

Making love with you Is like drinking sea water. The more I drink The thirstier I become, Until noth...

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Kenneth RexrothThe Love Poems of Marichiko

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire, bacteria feel desire. Life i...

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Kim Stanley RobinsonThe Years of Rice and Salt

But now it was spring again, and spring was almost unbearable for sensitive hearts. It drove creatio...

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If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Be...

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free from desire, you realize the mysterycaught in the desire, you see only the manifestations.

Rushing into action, you fail.Trying to grasp things, you lose them.Forcing a project to completion,...

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

It had ever, as I told the reader, been one of the singular blessings of my life, to be almost every...

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Laurence SterneA Sentimental Journey

My life came to a standstill. I could breathe, eat, drink and sleep, and I could not help doing thes...

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The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

One late winter afternoon in Oxford Street, amid the noise of vehicles and voices that filled that d...

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Science itself, no matter whether it is the search for truth or merely the need to gain control over...

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Louis de BroglieNouvelles perspectives en microphysique

I think she is confused by the way I want her, which is like nobody else. I know this deep down. I w...

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The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing...

Lords of fire and earth and water,Lords of moon and wind and sky,Come now to the Old Man's daughter,...

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Madeleine L'EngleA Swiftly Tilting Planet

Adam was in the dream, too; he traced the tangled pattern of ink with his finger. He said, "Scio qui...

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The inside of the old Camaro smelled like asphalt and desire, gasoline and dreams.

... Odette seemed a fascinating and desirable woman, the attraction which her body held for him had ...

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This was to say, however, that she did not long, at times, for some even greater variation, that she...

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He made what apology he could and hurried home, overjoyed that the satisfaction of his curiosity had...

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Among all the methods by which love is brought into being, among all the agents which disseminate th...

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Or she would look at him with a sullen expression, once again he would see before him a face worthy ...

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I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absen...

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Marcel ProustThe Captive & The Fugitive

We consider it innocent to desire, and heinous that the other person should do so.

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Marcel ProustThe Captive & The Fugitive

There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has ...

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Human tool-makers always make tools that will help us get what we want, and what we want hasn't chan...

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Margaret AtwoodIn Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination

Like preachers, I sell vision,like perfume ads, desireor its facsimile. Like jokesor war, it’s all i...

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How much misery . . . how much needless despair has been caused by a series of biological mismatches...

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Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I c...

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Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaid's Tale

Ger says that Kat has a tendency to push things to extremes, to go over the edge, merely from a juve...

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You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Eit...

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I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire.

It displeases me to have some creature think that he can foresee and profit from my desire, automati...

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Marguerite YourcenarMemoirs of Hadrian

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the mo...

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The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The tea...

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To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of ...

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It's nothing serious," he said. "It's just an obsession.

It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to y...

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But often, in the world's most crowded streets,But often, in the din of strife,There rises an unspea...

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Look upon men and things with the inner eye, with its form and desire, never forgetting that the sha...

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Should we not invariably act in this life as though the God whom our heart desires with its highest ...

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The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, t...

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I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching...

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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

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Michel FoucaultMadness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

There was not a scrap of tangible evidence to show that he had spent the most wonderful year of his ...

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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire...

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The starting point of all achievement is desire.

When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

You may as well know, right here, that you can never have riches in great quantities, unless you can...

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What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.

For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.

It always rains on the unloved-wet dreams-a fishing expedition-she kisses wyverns (the disneyland an...

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I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I e...

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But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire...

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[Dream] I do not want a grape.[Desire] I could make you want one.

I am Desire, am I not? That is what I am; that is what I do. I make things want things. Where I touc...

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Neil GaimanSeason of Mists

And Desire smiles, and forgets, for Desire is a creature of the moment.

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Neil GaimanThe Doll's House

If you have nothing left to want, then you just wait. Until there's nothing left to wait for.

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Neil GaimanThe Sandman: Endless Nights Special #1

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Having begun to feel, people’s desire to feel grew. They wanted to feel more, feel deeper, despite h...

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We are to blame if reality does not take the form we desire. Whatever we have not desired with suffi...

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Ah love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry scheme of things entire Would not we...

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Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. D...

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I saw myself in the mirror, and from my expression I had a shocking intimation of the rift between m...

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If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

But somehow, I feel sure that if I lived in the country for six months, I should become so unsophist...

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Oscar WildeA Woman of No Importance

Nay, without thought or conscious desire, might not things external to ourselves vibrate in unison w...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray