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    Garrison Keillor
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    Genesis 11:4 , Ecclesiastes 4:4, 1 Samuel 18:6-9 , Matthew 6:1-2 , Luke 10:38-42, Psalm 127:1-2
    I lust after recognition, I am desperate to win all the little merit badges and trinkets of my profession, and I am of less real use in this world than any good cleaning lady.

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    Dag Hammarskjöld
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    The lusts of the flesh reveal the loneliness of the soul.

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    Richard J. Foster
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    We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy...

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    Rick Warren
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    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.

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    Ephraim the Syrian
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    O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, faintheartedness, lust of power, and idle talk. But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience and love to your servant. Yea...

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    Richard J. Foster
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    Nothing disciplines the inordinate desires of the flesh like service, and nothing transforms the desires of the flesh like serving in hiddenness. The flesh whines against service but screams against h...

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    Rick Warren
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    Proverbs 14:30, Exodus 16:2-8 , 2 Chronicles 32:7-8, Matthew 6:25-27, Ephesians 4:31-32, Psalm 34:8-14
    It’s not just what you eat that matters, it’s what eats you. You can have all the right macrobiotics and organic food, but if your body is filled with resentment, worry, fear, lust, guilt, anger, bitt...

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    Timothy Keller
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    As a pastor, I’ve had people come to me and confess that they struggle with almost every kind of sin. Almost. I cannot recall anyone ever coming to me and saying, “I spend too much money on myself. I ...

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the ...

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    Bernard of Clairvaux
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    James 1:14
    Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of supreme desire... Fear is the motive which constrains the slave; ...

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    Alexander Schmemann
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    1 Corinthians 15:56, Romans 5:12
    Thus the whole death is not the biological phenomenon of death but the spiritual reality whose "sting... is sin" (1 Cor. 15:56) - the rejection by man of the only true life given to him by G...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    The desire for harming, the cruelty of revenge, the restless and implacable mind, the savageness of revolting, the lust for dominating, and similar things – these are what are justly blamed in wars. O...

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    Brant P. Hansen
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    Jesus warns us against our self-righteousness in the most dire terms. (He uses the word hell a lot more often than most of us are comfortable with.) He’s quite aware that while we humans have seemingl...

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    Henri J. M. Nouwen
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    Aren't you like me, hoping that some person, thing, or event will come along to give you that final feeling of inner well-being you desire? Don't you often hope: "May this book, idea, cou...

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    Fleming Rutledge
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    Exodus 34:29-35, Isaiah 60:1-3, Ezekiel 1:26-28, John 1:4-5, 14, Matthew 17:1-2, Psalm 104:1-2, John 8:12
    In dictionaries, definitions of glory use words like radiance, splendor, luster, majesty, brilliance, resplendence, grandeur, and effulgence. It is notable that many of these words are associated with...

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    F.B. Meyer
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    When we are born again, a new life - the life of God - is put into us by the Holy Spirit. But the old self-life, which is called in Scripture the flesh, is not taken away. The two may coexist in the s...

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    Henri J. M. Nouwen
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    Aren’t you like me, hoping that some person, thing, or event will come along to give you that final feeling of inner well-being you desire? Don’t you often hope: “May this book, idea, course, trip, jo...

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    Martin Luther
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    Baptism signifies that the old Adam in us is to be drowned by daily sorrow and repentance, and perish with all sins and evil lusts; and that the new man should daily come forth again and rise, who sha...

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    Leo Tolstoy
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    Boredom: the desire for desires.

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    Thomas Manton
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    Desires are the pulses of the soul;--as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires.

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    Mark Twain
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    There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

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    Dan B. Allender
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    Revelation 22:17, Isaiah 26:9, James 1:14-15, Philippians 1:23, Galatians 5:17, Romans 7:23
    Desire lies at the heart of who God made us to be, who we are at our core. Desire is both our greatest frailty and the mark of our highest beauty. Our desire completes us as we become One with our Lov...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignora...

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    Philip Sheldrake
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    We need to rescue “desire” from attempts to reduce its meaning to sexual libido and its increasingly murky associations with sexual abuse or sexual power games.

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    Jen Pollock Michel
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    Desire is primal: to be human is to want

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    Thomas Adams
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    Satan, like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.

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    Dante Alighieri
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    Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

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    William Thrasher
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    Temptations are an appeal to meet righteous needs in an unrighteous way.

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    Jen Pollock Michel
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    Desire, if it’s to be trusted, should be inspired by a divine vocabulary.
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