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“All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking after the grace of Baptism.”

Desire Lord Grace Equal Seeking Kingdoms Kingdom Of God Baptism Decree Baptized In

Book:Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)

Source: Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)

“Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.”

Desire Liberty Equal Understood Rational

Book:A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice

“China has established friendship with many African countries, and is opening itself up to Africa and providing assistance. It is cooperating with African countries on an equal basis and has no desire to colonize Africa.”

Country Desire Equal Bases China Opening Providing Assistance Cooperating

Author:Wen Jiabao

“It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact, and a plain soundness of judgement, which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she be really your friend, will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute. She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing: for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.”

“What a mystery this is, desire. The love sickness, the sensitivity, the obsession, the flutter of the heart, the ebb and flow of the blood. There is no drug and no alcohol to equal it.”

Heart Desire Mystery Blood Drug Equal Flow Alcohol Obsession Sickness Sensitivity Ebb And Flow

Author:Anais Nin

“Riches are valuable at all times, and to all men, because they always purchase pleasures such as men are accustomed to and desire; nor can anything restrain or regulate the love of money but a sense of honor and virtue, which, if it be not nearly equal at all times, will naturally abound most in ages of knowledge and refinement.”

Ifs Men Age Desire Pleasure Virtue Honor Equal Valuable Riches All Time Accustomed Refinement Love Of Money

Book:Essays and treatises on several subjects in two volumes: Essays, moral, political, and literacy

Source: Essays and treatises on several subjects in two volumes: Essays, moral, political, and literacy

“You are in the same manner surrounded with a small circle of persons... full of desire. They demand of you the benefits of desire... You are therefore properly the king of desire. ...equal in this to the greatest kings of the earth... It is desire that constitutes their power; that is, the possession of things that men covet.”

Men Persons Earth Desire Kings Demand Equal Benefits Possession Circles

Book:Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works

Source: Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works