Quotes About Earthly Desires

#1. Buddhism - Tibetan Buddhism - teaches us many things, peace comes from within, we must be free ourselves from earthly desires.

Peter Sagal

#2. By an increase in anger, warfare arises. By an increase of greed, famine arises. By an increase of stupidity, pestilence arises. Because these three calamities occur, the people's earthly desires grow all the more intense, and their false views thrive and multiply.

Nichiren

#3. Trying to fulfill earthly desires was like carrying water to the sea; a never- ending task, and an ultimately useless one.

Douglas Preston

#4. All earthly desires are but streams, but God is the ocean.

Jonathan Edwards

#5. Knowledge leads to deception; talent and ability only serve to increase earthly desires.

Yoshida Kenko

#6. Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious; it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious.

Madame De Stael

#7. I firmly believe that if you pray long enough, if you wish hard enough, God will grant you at least one wish in your lifetime.

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

#8. How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.

Terence

#9. Man's pursuit of physical desires and earthly possessions is an indication of his lack of conviction that the purpose of his existence is the attainment of spirituality.

Abraham J. Twerski

#10. Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.

Alister E. McGrath

#11. There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.

Jean De La Bruyere

#12. Humor and joy contribute to my total well-being.

Louise L. Hay

#13. No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.

Thomas Carlyle

#14. Nature permits us respite only when we are free from the desires of the flesh. It is a truth that sustains us and is a serious principle at the heart of all existence. It lifts our life beyond the confines of earthly concerns and exalts our natures to the stars. Is this not a miracle?

Seneca.

#15. 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

#16. Do not seek quiet and rest in those earthly realms where delusions and desires are engendered, for if thou dost, thou wilt be dragged through the rough wilderness of life, which is far from Me.

Leo Tolstoy

#17. For who so firm that cannot be seduced? she'd written.

John Green

#18. Life turns on a dime. have no idea what tomorrow will bring ... sure life would be a lot easier if we knew what was going to happen. You've got to live by faith one day at a time.

Eddie Guerrero

#19. Fortune craves not Contentment, for it is an earthly hope, and its desires are embraced by union with objects, while Contentment is naught but heartfelt.

Kahlil Gibran

#20. It is only necessary to seek one thing: to be with Jesus. The man who remains with Jesus is rich, even if he is poor with regard to material things. Who ever desires the earthly more than the heavenly loses both the earthly and the heavenly. But whoever seeks the heavenly is Lord of the whole world.

Ignatius Bryanchaninov

#21. I am an alien.
i am not of this world,
nor do I call it "home".
My desires are not for earthly things that will fade, corrode or burn.
I set my heart and mind on things above.
My faith and home are in God alone and I eagerly await His return for me.
I'm a citizen of heaven.

Anonymous

#22. Whenever I meet a beauty, I escape or hide in the corner.

Thom Yorke