Lusts

They call it liberty to live at large; whereas for a man to be a slave to his lusts is the worst of slaveries. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Nothing will beggar men sooner than the lusts of uncleanness; and the best preservative from those ruinous lusts is wisdom. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Note, The strength of men's lusts is an evidence of the weakness of their hearts; they have no acquaintance with themselves, nor government of themselves. ❋ Unknown (1721)

As the prevalency of men's lusts is owing to the darkness of their understandings, so the darkness of their understandings is very much owing to the dominion of their lusts: Men understand not judgment, discern not between truth and falsehood, right and wrong; they understand not the law of God as the rule either of their duty or of their doom; and, 1. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Some have been judged as to their profession of him by strong temptations; that is, their lusts, ambition, selfishness, which have carried them into ways and compliances wherein they have been compelled to desert, and almost renounce all their former profession. ❋ 1616-1683 (1968)

The soul with some is the game, their lusts are the dogs, and they themselves are the huntsmen; and never do they more halloo and lure and laugh and sing, than when they have delivered up their soul, their darling, to these dogs. ❋ Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin (N/A)

For when their unhallowed zeal shall drive them beyond the endurance of sound doctrine, they will heap up teachers for their lusts, that is, construct schemes of doctrine to suit their own desires, not wishing to be taught, but getting together teachers who will tell them what they wish: that the crowd of teachers whom they have ferreted out and gathered together, may satisfy them with the doctrines of their own tumultuous desires. ❋ Unknown (1898)

The members are the first seat of war; thence it passes to conflict between man and man, nation and nation. come they not, &c. -- an appeal to their consciences. lusts -- literally, "pleasures," that is, the lusts which prompt you to ❋ Unknown (1871)

In regard, then, to the form or image wherein the natural mind images hell, that form or image is such that the reigning love with its lusts, which is the universal state of that mind, is like what the devil is in hell; and the thoughts of the false arising out of that reigning love are, as it were, the devil's crew. ❋ Emanuel Swedenborg (1730)

They are called lusts, because according to the quantity and quality of the lust for those things, such and so great is their appropriation. ❋ Emanuel Swedenborg (1730)

Since an evil man is such, plainly he is one evil composed of countless different evils, all severally evils, and called lusts of evil. ❋ Emanuel Swedenborg (1730)

Unthankful, and impure, defiled with fleshly lusts, which is an instance of great ingratitude to that God who has provided so well for the support of the body; we abuse his gifts, if we make them the food and fuel of our lusts. ❋ Unknown (1721)

If we do not drive sin out, sin will drive us out; if we be not the death of our lusts, our lusts will be the death of our souls. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Conservatives - especially religious conservatives - tend to believe that treating children as moral beings who can rise above their lusts is a worthwhile practice, even if it has no measurable effect on their present behavior. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Your lusts are the hornet's nest, and God's law is the stick that whacks it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The difficulty is that this art, which alone can educate us in grace of body and soul, and which alone can make the history of the past live for us or the hope of the future shine for us, which alone can give delicacy and nobility to our crude lusts, which is the appointed vehicle of inspiration and the method of the communion of saints, is actually branded as sinful among us because, wherever it arises, there is resistance to tyranny, breaking of fetters, and the breath of freedom. ❋ George Bernard Shaw (1903)

What if the "lusts," "impurity" and "degrading" actions including "exchanging the truth about God for a lie" as described in Romans 1:24-25 actually referred to the lust for political power, wealth and idolatrous self-worship as exhibited by many anti-gay Christians, some of whom scapegoat LGBT people as a convenient way of diverting attention from their own sexual sins? ❋ Ph.D. Rev. Patrick S. Cheng (2010)

What if the "lusts,""impurity" and "degrading" actions including "exchanging the truth about God for a lie" as described in Romans 1:24-25 actually referred to the lust for political power, wealth and idolatrous self-worship as exhibited by many anti-gay Christians, some of whom scapegoat LGBT people as a convenient way of diverting attention from their own sexual sins? ❋ Ph.D. Rev. Patrick S. Cheng (2010)

If we assume for the sake of argument that RC is true, God created us with these "lusts," then declared acting on said lusts to be sinful. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Ew is it [true that] you made-out with [Selena] last night?" "Hey [lust is lust] man." ❋ Zetaz (2011)

[i think] [you know who] you lust after. ❋ Yo Mommas Ass (2011)

I [lust] [for you] [sometimes] ❋ Tatisawe (2016)

[Lust] for [sex] has no [bounds]. ❋ ShockWve (2014)

I have [lust] for [that person] ❋ Stuff_5 (2017)

i just wanted his [lips] with [mine]. "[lust]" ❋ L3Xx♥ (2009)

she [lusted] after him, his [eyes], his hair, his [body] ❋ Tori (2003)

he was very [lustful] after [seeing] her in that [mini skirt] ❋ John91 (2010)

Johnny: [So dude], how did you ever like [Christy]? She was a total bitch! Nelson: I didn't care about that. I was just in lust with her. --------- Alex: Hey Katie, I don't really like you, but I'm in lust with you. Katie: [Same here]! Let's just hook up. ❋ Andrei Zaroff (2008)

Chad : Last night I boned [Kiersten] so hard with my large cock! Jake : Yeah right asshole Kiersten was in my bed [fucking me]! Chad : Oh but I fucked her in my dream just like I used to before she met you! Jake : Dude if you don't [stop this] Lust for my girlfriend I'm gonna kick your ass! Chad : I would love to sick my cock in your ass! Jake : Dude you better run! ❋ SlopNChop (2017)