A Quote by Os Guinness
Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.
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When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.
Desires that are just are termed Truth. Without desires, Truth cannot be understood.
Prayer is the offering up of our desires to God in the name of Christ, for such things as are agreeable to his will. It is an offering of our desires. Desires are the soul and life of prayer; words are but the body; now as the body without the soul is dead, so are prayers unless they are animated with our desires.
We all feel the urge to conform; it is the most normal of human desires.
Our value system must conform to His. Our actions must conform to our values.
I always believed that clothes should be designed to conform to our bodies and not our bodies to conform to the clothing.
As the hart desires the spring of living water, so my soul desires to leave the prison of this dark body and see You in truth.
Knowledge of those unalterable Relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other...To these we should conform in good Earnest; and not think to force Nature, and the whole Order of her System, by a Compliance with our Pride, and Folly, to conform to our artificial Regulations.
Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories.
The desire for truth is the highest of all desires, yet, it is still a desire. All desires must be given up for the real to be.....When all search ceases, it is the Supreme State.
Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
We don't even know what our desire is. We ask other people to tell us our desires. We would like our desires to come from our deepest selves, our personal depths - but if it did, it would not be desire. Desire is always for something we feel we lack.
Should one ask: 'how do I cope with a well-ordered enemy host about to attack me?' I reply: seize something he cherishes and he will conform to your desires.
We're definitely planning a huge world with this 'Venom' story, and we want to be able to satisfy our own desires and the desires of our fans to explore all of the beloved characters from the universe.
God cannot hear the prayers on our lips often because the desires of our heart after the world cry out to Him much more strongly and loudly than the our desires for Him.
This is the great truth life has to teach us ... that gratification of our individual desires and expression of our personal preferences without consideration for their effect upon others brings in the end nothing but ruin and devastation.
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