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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

“What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why I don't know. Biological imperative Divine law Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing.”

Ifs Knows Men Two Different Law Desire Cases Century Divine Members Men And Women Unions Decades Mysterious Hopeful Tribes Imperatives Reconcile Matrimony Divine Law

Author:Andrew Schneider

“I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.”

Happiness Desire Passion Sex Friendship Female Unions Possession Supreme Sole Tenderness Infatuation

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

“Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.”

Men Action Desire Human Nature Unions Intellect

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.”

Men Giving Said Stills Desire Peace Giving Up Unions Duration Unprepared

Book:Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings

Source: Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings

“I do not desire to give myself any fresh political label. Though the formation of the Union of Democratic Control it has been possible for me to work in close co-operation with several of your leaders and this joint effort on the part of the Labour members and radicals is having I think a very beneficial effect. I do not desire to alienate myself from any of my former political associates but rather to endeavour to urge them along the same path which I myself am treading.”