“The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those who are not yet purified. But when they amend their lives, his delight is indescribable and knows no bounds. A soul filled with thoughts of sensual desire and hatred is unpurified. If we detect any trace of hatred in our hearts against any man whatsoever for committing any fault, we are utterly estranged from love for God, since love for God absolutely precludes us from hating any man.” IfsKnowsMenLoveHeartPersonsSoulHelpingChristianDesireHatePassionHatredFilledFaultsBoundsDelightEvery ManSensualGod LoveIndescribable Author:Maximus the Confessor
“We would willingly have others perfect, and yet we amend not our own faults. We would have others severely corrected and will not be corrected ourselves. The large liberty of others displeases us, and yet we will not have our own desires denied us. We will have others kept under by strict laws, but in no sort will ourselves be restrained. And thus it appears how seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.” LawDesirePerfectLibertyBalanceFaultsSaintNeighborDeniedStrictStrict Laws Author:Thomas a Kempis
“I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault.” DesireFaultsImproving Author:Heston Blumenthal
“Lustful Desire (although 'twere rather fit To some brute creature to attribute it) Shall be presented in the second place, Because it shrouds a vile deformed face Beneath love's vizard, and assumes that name, Hiding its own fault with the other's blame.” FacesDesireNamesFitCreaturesBlameAssumingFaultsLustHidingAttributesBrutesSecond PlaceShroudsLustful Book:Poems ... Source: Poems ...
“Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye far our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve.” EyeDesireViewsHigherDeservePerfectionFaultsAppreciationMerit Author:John Frederick Boyes
“Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.” IfsMenMayDesireCrimeFoolAccountsFaultsEndeavorFraudDespiseDreadCunningKnavesInsensibleDuplicity Author:Norm MacDonald
“Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.” MenWellsHas BeensDesireFaultsFallenRopeClinging Author:Rumi