Where there is a strong desire and profound hope, there is a way.
I had a strong desire to write and some free time.
I had a very strong desire to be successful at something.
But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.
Matthew kept hinting that his desire - for blood, chiefly- was so strong that it put everything else at risk. But vampires weren’t the only creatures who had to manage such strong impulses. Much of what qualified as magic was simply desire in actio...
It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak. There is no natural connection between strong impulses and a weak conscience. The natural connection is the other way. To say that one person’...
But so strong is our desire for meaning, an innate desire, that we construct meanings where there are none.
We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling.
It is not merely our own desire but the desire of Christ in His Spirit that drives us to grow in love. Those who seldom or never feel in their hearts the desire for the love of God and other men, and who do not thirst for the pure waters of desire wh...
The man who never weakens when things are against him will grow stronger and stronger until all things will delight to be for him. He will finally have all the strength he may desire or need. Be always strong and you will always be stronger.Picture i...
For that thought to be strong, however, it must be free of doubt, for doubt weakens the will, weakens the response of the universe, and slows the manifestation of desire.
Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.
The desire to criticise becomes less and less as the character is developed. It is the mark of a fine character never to be critical and to mention but rarely the faults of others. A strong character does not resist evil, but uses their strength in ...
But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not th...
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.
She had not wanted him to but had let him have his way because ever since she was a child she had generally yielded before anyone with strong willpower, especially if it was a man, not because she was naturally submissive, but because strong male wil...
When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
