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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
Victor Hugo
God
World
Destruction
Every
Suicide
Destroy
Bad
He
Institution
Itself
Ends
Thing
Desires
Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.
Joyce Meyer
God
Satan
Focus
Everything
Constantly
Wrong
Come
Look
How
How Far
Still
Go
Wants
Far
Us
Desires
Rejoice
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
Bertrand Russell
Good
Good And Evil
World
Achieve
Evil
Own
Medium
Those
Distorting
Seek
More
Only
Through
Facts
Know
Likely
Than
Forget
View
Who
Desires
Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
Chanakya
Heart
Mind
Rise
Purity
Divine
Senses
Who
Platform
Compassionate
Desires
Needed
Speech
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mill
Happiness
Seek
Rather
Attempting
Learned
Limiting
Than
Them
Satisfy
Desires
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
Khalil Gibran
Dreams
Those
Visions
Dreamer
Without
Lord
Than
Prefer
Realized
Among
Humblest
Desires
You're not gonna get through life without being worshipful or devoted to something. You're either devoted to your job, or to your desires. So the best way to spend your life is to try to be devoted to prayer, to Allah.
Mos Def
Life
Best
Prayer
You
Allah
Try
Job
Spend
Way
Best Way
Something
Through
Devoted
Without
Get
Being
Either
Gonna
Your
Desires
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
Aldous Huxley
God
Strength
Travel
Man
Soul
Heart
Stillness
Mind
Become
Hunger
Must
Would
Mystic
He
Road
Uncontrolled
Obstacle
Along
Learn
His
Passively
Off
Intensely
May
After
Far
Cutting
Desire
Desires
Thirst
We need no fanciful teaching regarding the personality of God. What God desires us to know of Him is revealed in His word and His works. The beautiful things of nature reveal His character and His power as Creator.
Ellen G. White
Beautiful
God
Nature
Character
Personality
Word
Power
Know
Beautiful Things
Him
Reveal
Revealed
His
Regarding
Fanciful
Us
Teaching
Works
Creator
Things
Desires
Need
The love of Christ reaches to the very depths of earthly misery and woe, or it would not meet the case of the veriest sinner. It also reaches to the throne of the eternal, or man could not he lifted from his degraded condition, and our necessities would not be met, our desires would be unsatisfied.
Ellen G. White
Love
Man
Christ
Met
Meet
Our
Earthly
Would
Would-Be
Degraded
Case
Throne
Could
Misery
Unsatisfied
Lifted
He
Also
Woe
His
Condition
Sinner
Very
Eternal
Depths
Necessities
Desires
Every human heart cries and yearns for the same thing: a chance to fulfill his or her own dreams and desires. Even the poorest man has a dream.
Myles Munroe
Dreams
Man
Heart
Own
Same Thing
Human Heart
Every
Cries
Dream
His
Same
Human
Poorest
Fulfill
Even
Her
Thing
Chance
Desires
A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
Orison Swett Marden
Man
Strong
Own
Victim
Energy
Favorable
Out
He
Environment
Force
His
Conditions
Turn
Successful
Creates
Successful Man
Inherent
Compel
Things
Desires
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Needs
Care
Our
Finds
More
Comforts
Provided
Body
Defect
Desires
Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
Wallace Stevens
Death
Dreams
Alone
Mother
Beauty
Our
Our Dreams
Shall
Come
Fulfillment
Hence
Her
Desires
In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.
Charles Stanley
Service
God
Leadership
Giving
First
Become
Own
Design
Else
Our
Our Lives
Abandon
Someone
Give
Both
Perfect
Through
He
Put
Calls
Sake
His
Truly
Selflessness
According
Up
Child
Children
Places
Us
Interests
Fulfilled
Lives
Desires
Position
I have seen (as far as it can be seen) many persons changed in a moment from the spirit of horror, fear, and despair to the spirit of hope, joy, peace; and from sinful desires, till then reigning over them, to a pure desire of doing the will of God.
John Wesley
Hope
God
Peace
Joy
Fear
Will
Pure
Seen
Changed
Despair
Spirit
Horror
Over
Sinful
Till
Doing
As Far As
Them
Far
Persons
Then
Moment
Many
Reigning
Desire
Desires
All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.
Maimonides
Wisdom
Great
Ignorance
Cause
Men
Other
Evils
Religious
Absence
Likewise
Non-Existence
Principles
Because
Opinions
Due
Intentions
Which
Certain
Each
Originate
Desires
One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.
Robert Baden-Powell
Obedience
Obey
First
Own
Must
He
Put
First Place
His
Scout
Authority
Duties
Orders
Place
Second
Desires
Amusement
The quality of one's emotional life changes over the years, doesn't it? But the basic instincts and desires, greed and hope, seem to remain constant. In the larger scope of things, there's a sense of fulfillment to living a creative life. So I guess that's what keeps me going.
Tommy Lee Jones
Life
Hope
Me
Creative
Quality
Greed
Sense
Living
Changes
Guess
Constant
Life Changes
Seem
Remain
Emotional
Emotional Life
Instincts
Over
Years
Scope
Going
Fulfillment
Creative Life
Larger
Keeps
Basic
Things
Desires
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
Aristotle
Down
Increase
Increased
Only
Permit
Them
Means
Your
Present
Bring
Desires
God authors desires in your heart, then fulfills His Will by enabling you to realize those desires.
Edwin Louis Cole
God
You
Heart
Will
Those
Enabling
His
Authors
Realize
Then
Fulfills
Your
Desires
I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Myself
Soul
Deliver
Sin
Longer
Sure
Am
Infect
Refuse
Anything
Them
Whole
Satisfy
Desires
At a lot of companies founded on principles, the notion of making money is almost antithetical to the ethos of the place. From the very beginning, our business has existed to meet the needs and desires of multiple constituencies: customers, team members, vendors, shareholders, the community.
John Mackey
Needs
Business
Money
Beginning
Community
Meet
Our
Members
Shareholders
Almost
Vendors
Principles
Making
Making Money
Existed
Lot
Very
Place
Customers
Ethos
Notion
Team
Companies
Multiple
Founded
Desires
O never give me over to my own heart's desires, nor let me follow my own imaginations!
John Wesley
Me
Heart
Own
Follow
Give
Give Me
My Own
Never
Over
Nor
Imaginations
Desires
Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one's own desires through which one listens.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Listening
Own
Projecting
Only
Through
Importance
Listens
Which
Desires
The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation... God does not love weak souls and flabby flesh. The spirit desires to wrestle with flesh which is strong and full of resistance. It is a carnivorous bird which is incessantly hungry; it eats flesh and, by assimilating it, makes it disappear.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Love
God
Man
Struggle
Together
Strong
Bird
Longing
Everyone
Weak
Hungry
Out
Reconciliation
Spirit
Eats
Wrestle
Disappear
Between
Makes
Does
Souls
Flabby
Which
Breaks
Flesh
Full
Incessantly
Assimilating
Resistance
Desires
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