Lust Quotes

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The desire of love is to give. The desire of lust is to take. - Author Unknown     Author: Unknown Authors He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart.     Author: C.S. Lewis Love is the great conqueror of lust.     Author: C.S. Lewis Lust and force are the source of all our actions; lust causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.     Author: Blaise Pascal Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; for no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labor is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.     Author: Jeremy Taylor Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.     Author: Jeremy Taylor What else would lust ask but the death of chastity?     Author: John Chrysostom God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.     Author: Martin Luther Our eyes, when gazing on sinful objects, are out of their calling, and out of God's keeping.     Author: Thomas Fuller Hold not conference, debate, or reasoning with any lust; 'tis but a preparatory for thy admission of it. The way is at the very first flatly to deny it.     Author: Thomas Fuller You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy to the devil, so that he can, almost at his pleasure ever after, represent the same sinful pleasure to you anew; he hath now access to your fancy to stir up lustful thoughts and desires, so that when you should think of your calling, of your God, or of your soul, your thoughts will be worse than swinish, upon the filth that is not fit to be named. If the devil here get in a foot, he will not easily be got out.     Author: Richard Baxter Though selfishness hath defiled the whole man, yet sensual pleasure is the chief part of its interest, and, therefore, by the senses it commonly works; and these are the doors and windows by which iniquity entereth into the soul.     Author: Richard Baxter