The nurse of infidelity is sensuality. Author: Richard Cecil |
Sensual pleasures are like soap-bubbles, sparkling, evanescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world. Author: James H. Aughey |
Malice is the devil's picture. Lust makes men brutish; malice makes them devilish - it is mental murder. Author: Thomas Watson |
Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth's vineyard, David a lustful eye at Bathsheba. The eye is the pulse of the soul; as physicians judge of the heart by the pulse, so we by the eye; a rolling eye, a roving heart. The good eye keeps minute time, and strikes when it should; the lustful, crochet-time, and so puts all out of tune. Author: Thomas Adams |
Satan can only attack us from the outside in. He may work through the lust and sensations of the body or through the mind and emotion of the soul, for those two belong to the outward man. Author: Watchman Nee |
An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust. Samson is not alone in the history of man in failing in this regard. Delilah is still cutting the hair of man today! Author: Watchman Nee |
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It is no policy to let thy lusts have arms, which are sure to rise and declare against thee when thine enemy comes. Author: William Gurnall |
Therefore tremble, O man, at any power thou hast, except thou usest it for God. Art thou strong in body; who hath thy strength? God, or thy lusts? Author: William Gurnall |
There is not only a lack of success for condoms. It's worse than that -- they are utter failures. Author: Wendy Wright |
God made every one of us a sexual being, and that is good. Attraction and arousal are the natural, spontaneous, God-given responses to physical beauty, while lust is a deliberate act of the will. Author: Rick Warren |