A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust.
Christians alone are in a position to rescue the perishing. We dare not settle down to try to live as if things were 'normal. ' Nothing is normal while sin and lust and death roam the world, pouncing upon one and another till the whole population has been destroyed.
A lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of the good an idol - is open to the charge of being still caught within the dialectic of idolatry. I've made a moral criticism of my moral consciousness. Meta-idolatry.
When I went to war, I did not go making geopolitical calculations. I went to war with a lust.
The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.
Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
When sex becomes conscious it is love, it is no longer lust. Love brings freedom, and lust simply creates prisons for you.
Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger.
I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.
I loved life too much to lust for life.
Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature.
It is not enough to be abstinent with other people, you also have to be abstinent alone. The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery. You can't masturbate without lust!. . . You're going to be pleasing each other. And if he already knows what pleases him and he can please himself, then why am I in the picture?
In large Victorian houses with many rooms and heavy doors, the occupants could be mysterious and exciting to one another in a way that those who live in rackety developments can never hope to be. Not even the lust of a Lord Byron could survive the fact of Levittown.
Driving forward is the chief characteristic of western man since the Sumerians. His dread triad of vices is property-holding, voraciousness, and lust.
It is possible for the devil to inhabit animals the same way he inhabits humans and that causes a sin of lust.
Look at the Metropolitan Community Church today, the gay church, almost accepted into the World Council of Churches. Almost, the vote was against them. But they will try again and again until they get in, and the tragedy is that they would get one vote. Because they are spoken of here in Jude as being brute beasts, that is going to the baser lust of the flesh to live immorally, and so Jude describes this as apostasy. But thank God this vile and satanic system will one day be utterly annihilated and there'll be a celebration in heaven.
Disharmony prevails when you confuse Lust with LOVE, while the distance between the two is endless!
Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
Where you find the attraction for lust and wealth considerably diminished, to whatever creed he may belong, know that his inner spirit is awakening.