Pastoral Resources

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.

In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.

It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities.

Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.

People never know how strong is their lust for being cheated.

He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.