A Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Carnal Desire Lost Possessed

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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian - Leader
October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948

The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.

Colin Wilson

I don't know what happened, but I lost the desire to acquire more things. It's very peaceful to have lost that desire.

Lee Radziwill

Get rid of this bunkum about the 'carnal Christian'. Forget it! If you're carnal, you're not saved.

Leonard Ravenhill

You don't have to sin to be carnal. People who are carnal just means they make all their decisions based on their senses.

T. D. Jakes

You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found.

Rebecca Solnit

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

E. M. Forster

He (Mohammed) seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh urges us. His teaching also contained precepts that were in conformity with his promises, and he gave free rein to carnal pleasure. In all this, as is not unexpected; he was obeyed by carnal men. As for proofs of the truth of his doctrine, he brought forward only such as could be grasped by the natural ability of anyone with a very modest wisdom. Indeed, the truths that he taught he mingled with many fables and with doctrines of the greatest falsity.

Thomas Aquinas

The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no sign that he approves the carnal husk or enjoys gnawing through it.

H. L. Mencken

Everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the Infinite.

David O. McKay

The traits I picked from my conversation with Captain Gopinath was his honesty. He was completely possessed at each stage by what he was doing. When he was in the army, he was possessed there. He was possessed when he started Udupi hotel or while doing agriculture. He is a perfectionist and he is very impatient.

Sudha Kongara

That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.