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“Without the power of intelligence there is no capacity for spiritual knowledge; and without spiritual knowledge we cannot have the faith from which springs that hope whereby we grasp things of the future as though they were present. Without the power of desire there is no longing, and so no love, which is the issue of longing; for the property of desire is to love something. And without the incensive power, intensifying the desire for union with what is loved, there can be no peace, for peace is truly the complete and undisturbed possession of what is desired.”

Christian Spiritual Desire Issues Spring Capacity Longing Property Unions Possession Orthodox No Love What Is Love Spiritual Knowledge

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“It is not truly realistic or scientific to take short views, to sacrifice the future to immediate pressure, to ignore facts and forces that are disagreeable and to magnify the enduring quality of whatever falls in with immediate desire. It is false that the evils of the situation arise from absence of ideals; they spring from wrong ideals.”

Thinking Facts Desire Fall Evil Force Views Quality Situation Sacrifice Spring Ideals Pressure Endure Absence Arise Realistic Disagreeable

Book:The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1920

Source: The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1920

“Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow, And humbler growths as moved with one desire Put on, to welcome spring, their best attire, Poor Robin is yet flowerless; but how gay With his red stalks upon this sunny day!”

Shows Faces Desire Growth Poor Wind Gay Spring Red Moved Blow Welcome March Splendid Sunny Lilies Stalking Robins Sunny Day Attire Welcome Spring

Book:Complete Poetical Works

Source: Complete Poetical Works

“All political arrangements, in that they have to bring a variety of widely-discordant interests into unity and harmony, necessarily occasion manifold collisions. From these collisions spring misproportions between men's desires and their powers; and from these, transgressions. The more active the State is, the greater is the number of these.”

Men States Political Desire Interest Numbers Greater Spring Harmony Unity Active Variety Occasions Arrangements Collision Transgression Manifold

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“All desire springs from a lack, which it strives continually to fill.”

Desire Spring Strive Strife

Book:Literary Theory: An Introduction

Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction

“Women believe -- or at least often pretend to believe -- that all our tenderness for them springs from desire; that we love them when we have not for a time enjoyed them, and dismiss them when we are sated, or to express it more precisely, exhausted. There is no truth in this idea, though it may be made to appear true. When we are rigid with desire, we are apt to pretend a great tenderness in the hope of satisfying that desire; but at no other time are we in fact so liable to treat women brutally, and so unlikely to feel any deep emotion but one.”

Source: Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'

“Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering one's condition is the mainspring of effort. The first touch of slavery snaps this spring.”

Men Firsts Humans Desire Effort Conditions Human Nature Ambition Spring Capacity Constitution Slavery Enterprise Snaps

Book:Slavery

Source: Slavery

“I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?”

Mind Humans Desire Human Beings Wonder Spring Doctors Intention Traps

Author:Phyllis Bottome

“It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.”

Men Desire Belief Difficult Youth Despair Spring Prepared Injustice Privilege Disappointment Optimistic Agony Outrage Hopefulness

Book:The Galantrys

Source: The Galantrys

“But when we start to focus in on what our own mind is up to, for instance, it is not unusual to quickly go unconscious again, to fall back into an automatic-pilot mode of unawareness. These lapses in awareness are frequently caused by an eddy of dissatisfaction with what we are seeing or feeling in that moment, out of which springs a desire for something to be different, for things to change.”

Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

“Unfortunately, preachers who distort God's Word are all too common today. Sometimes this springs from a sincere desire to soften hard hearts, but hearts aren't changed by compromise.”

Heart Sometimes Hard Today Desire Common Changed Spring Compromise Sincere Preacher

Author:Alistair Begg

“The body whips the soul. In its great desire it demands the elixir In the roar of spring, transmutations.”

Soul Body Desire Demand Spring Whips Elixir Transmutation

Book:Selected Writings of Charles Olson

Source: Selected Writings of Charles Olson

“[Books] may sleep for a while and be neglected; but whenever the desire of information springs up in the human breast, there they are with mild wisdom ready to instruct and please us.”

Humans May Book Desire Sleep Information Ready Please Spring Breasts Neglected

Book:Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry

Source: Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry