Lusts Quotes
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A man lusts to become a god ...and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder?
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Therefore is not by any to be enterprized, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly, to satisfy men's carnal lusts and appetites, like brute beasts that have no understanding; but reverently, discreetly, advisedly, soberly, and in the fear of God.
— Solemnization of Marriage, Exhortation.
Theyare only safe That know to soothe the prince's appetite And serve his lusts.
Philip Massinger— 1626 The Roman Actor, act1, sc.1.
The apostle denies that anyone actually knows Christ, who has not learned to put off the old man, corrupt with deceitful lusts, and to put on Christ.
john calvin— Page 20 (Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life)
We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine,But search of deep philosophy,Wit, eloquence, and poetry;Arts which I lov'd, for they, my friend, were thine.
Abraham Cowley— On the Death of Mr. William Harvey; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Remember that pride is the worst viper that is in the heart, the greatest disturber of the soul's peace and sweet communion with Christ; it was the first sin that ever was, and lies lowest in the foundation of Satan's whole building, and is the most difficultly rooted out, and is the most hidden, secret and deceitful of all lusts, and often creeps in, insensibly, into the midst of religion and sometimes under the disguise of humility.
jonathan edwards— To Deborah Hatheway, Letters and Personal Writings (Works of Jonathan Edwards Online Vol. 16) , Ed. George S. Claghorn (1741)
A man lusts to become a god ... and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder?
david zindell— p. 278 (The Broken God (1992))
They are only safe That know to soothe the prince's appetite, And serve his lusts.
Philip Massinger— Philip Massinger, The Roman Actor (1626), Act I, scene i.
Silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts.
— 2 Timothy 3:6 (KJV).
Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.
— 1 Peter 2:11 (KJV).
In the throat Of Hell, before the very vestibule Of opening Orcus, sit Remorse and Grief, And pale Disease, and sad Old Age and Fear, And Hunger that persuades to crime, and Want: Forms terrible to see. Suffering and Death Inhabit here, and Death's own brother Sleep; And the mind's evil lusts and deadly War, Lie at the threshold, and the iron beds Of the Eumenides; and Discord wild Her viper-locks with bloody fillets bound.
— Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), Book VI, line 336. C. P. Cranch's translation.
What God is he, writes laws of peace, & clothes him in a tempest What pitying Angel lusts for tears, and fans himself with sighs What crawling villain preaches abstinence & wraps himself In fat of lambs? no more I follow, no more obedience pay!
— William Blake in "America: A Prophecy" (1793). Spoken by "Boston's Angel".
Take patience as your pillow, hug poverty, discard lusts, oppose your desires and know that you are seen by God, so look at how you are.
— Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p.479
Sin, without strong restraints, would pull God from His throne, make the world the minion of its lusts, and all beings bow down and worship.
richard cecil— p. 549. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Sin, without strong restraints, would pull God from His throne, make the world the minion of its lusts, and all beings bow down and worship.
— Richard Cecil, p. 549. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
