Pastoral Resources

In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.

When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.

I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

I didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that.

When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.

Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.

What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore.

I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word.

It is the desire of our hearts, and as we believe God's will under this dispensation, that all the children of God should be gathered together as such, and, consequently, as not of the world.

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.