Inspirational Quotes on Lust

“Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; for no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labor is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.”

“Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth's vineyard, David a lustful eye at Bathsheba. The eye is the pulse of the soul; as physicians judge of the heart by the pulse, so we by the eye; a rolling eye, a roving heart. The good eye keeps minute time, and strikes when it should; the lustful, crochet-time, and so puts all out of tune.”

“It is no policy to let thy lusts have arms, which are sure to rise and declare against thee when thine enemy comes.”

“Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.”

“Our eyes, when gazing on sinful objects, are out of their calling, and out of God's keeping.”

“Therefore tremble, O man, at any power thou hast, except thou usest it for God. Art thou strong in body; who hath thy strength? God, or thy lusts?”

“What else would lust ask but the death of chastity?”

“Hold not conference, debate, or reasoning with any lust; 'tis but a preparatory for thy admission of it. The way is at the very first flatly to deny it.”

“God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.”

“Malice is the devil's picture. Lust makes men brutish; malice makes them devilish - it is mental murder.”

“Lust and force are the source of all our actions; lust causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.”

“You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy to the devil, so that he can, almost at his pleasure ever after, represent the same sinful pleasure to you anew; he hath now access to your fancy to stir up lustful thoughts and desires, so that when you should think of your calling, of your God, or of your soul, your thoughts will be worse than swinish, upon the filth that is not fit to be named. If the devil here get in a foot, he will not easily be got out.”

“The desire of love is to give. The desire of lust is to take.”

“He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart.”

“Though selfishness hath defiled the whole man, yet sensual pleasure is the chief part of its interest, and, therefore, by the senses it commonly works; and these are the doors and windows by which iniquity entereth into the soul.”

“An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust. Samson is not alone in the history of man in failing in this regard. Delilah is still cutting the hair of man today!”

“why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on:”