{"id":7608,"date":"2016-08-16T23:41:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/desiredesires\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T23:41:58","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:41:58","slug":"desiredesires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/desiredesires\/","title":{"rendered":"DESIRE\/DESIRES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>The Bible, Proverbs 13:19 kjv<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>The Bible, 1 Peter 1:14<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>The Bible, 1 Peter 2:11<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height: normal'>D. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; etermination<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height: normal'>E. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ffort<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height: normal'>S. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; acrifice<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height: normal'>I. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; nitiative<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height: normal'>R. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; esponsibility<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>E. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; nthusiasm<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Author unknown<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Desire is half of life. Indifference is half of death.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Author unknown<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Author unknown<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Aesop<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Remove every evil desire and clothe yourself with good and holy desire. For if you are clothed with good desire, you will hate evil desire and bridle it as you please.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Shepherd of Hermas<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>To have more, desire less.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Martin Luther<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>George Macdonald<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>After a time, you may find that \u201chaving\u201d is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as \u201cwanting.\u201d It is not logical, but it is often true.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Spock, \u201cAmok Time,\u201d stardate 3372.7<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>We desire most what we ought not to have.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Publilius Syrus<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>When a man desires anything inordinately, he is at once unquiet in himself.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Thomas \u00e0 Kempis<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>In idleness there is a perpetual despair.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Thomas Carlyle<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Despair is the conclusion of fools.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Benjamin Disraeli<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>To live without hope is to cease to live.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Fyodor Dostoevsky<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Despair is suffering without meaning.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Viktor Frankl<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Eternal Wisdom: Thou must not despair. Did I not come into the world for the sake of thee and all sinners, that I might lead thee back to My Father in such beauty, brightness, and purity, as otherwise thou never couldst have acquired?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Henry Suso<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Jeremy Taylor<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Terence<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Henry David Thoreau<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul. 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