“If you make provision for the desires of the flesh and bear a grudge against your neighbor on account of something transitory, you worship the creature instead of the Creator.” IfsChristianDesireBearsCreaturesWorshipAccountsCreatorNeighborFleshOrthodoxProvisionGrudgeTransitory Author:Maximus the Confessor
“You are loved. You are dear to your heavenly parents. The infinite and eternal Creator of light and life knows you! He is mindful of you. Yes, God loves you this very day and alwaysHe knows everything about you. He sees you clearly—He knows you as you really are. And He loves you—today and always!He loves you not only for who you are this very day but also for the person of glory and light you have the potential and the desire to become” KnowsPersonsLightTodayDesireParentLove YouEternalGloryInfiniteWho You AreDearCreatorGod LoveHeavenlyGod Loves You Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“He who is himself crossed in love is able from time to time to master his passion, for he is not the creature but the creator of his own misery; and if a lover is unable to control his passion, he at least knows that he is himself to blame for his sufferings. But he who is loved without reciprocating that love is lost beyond redemption, for it is not in his power to set a limit to that other's passion, to keep it within bounds, and the strongest will is reduced to impotence in the face of another's desire.” IfsKnowsLoveAbleFacesDesireSufferingPassionLostLove IsMastersLoversCreaturesLimitsBlameMiseryBoundsCreatorRedemptionStrongestImpotenceLove Is Lost Author:Stefan Zweig
“music is the most absorbing of all the arts. It absorbs the mind of the artist, whether creator or executant, to the exclusion of every other consideration outside his own immediate necessities or desires.” MindArtDesireArtistMusicMusic IsCreatorConsiderationExclusionAbsorbing Author:Baroness Orczy
“Every people should be the originators of their own destiny, the projectors of their own schemes, and creators of the events that lead to their destiny -- the consummation of their own desires.” PeopleShouldDesireDestinyEventsCreatorSchemesProjectors Author:Martin Delany
“The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue other minds.” MindDoeDesirePleasureCreatingCreator Author:Beatrice M. Hinkle
“The Christian life is a long and continual tendency of our hearts toward that eternal goodness which we desire on earth. All our happiness consists in thirsting for it. Now this thirst is prayer. Ever desire to approach your Creator, and you will never cease to pray. Do not think it necessary to pronounce many words.” ThinkingHeartLongEarthChristianLife IsDesirePrayerPrayingGoodnessEternalApproachCreatorCeaseChristian LifeTendenciesThirst Author:Francois Fenelon