Ellen G. White Quotes

We inhabit a world where we're taught that we can have what we desire, and tend to act on it - the least we can do is admit to it when we succumb to our instincts.

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.

Hunger and self-control do not go hand in hand.

I always want more.

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.

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.

I can resist everything except temptation.

Lust is an appetite that needs to be regulated.

There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

The masses, the public, is too strict.

Economic man and sensual man are not suppressible.

There are two areas where you can't stop people misbehaving: eating and sex

As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.

Sex is always funny. I don't find it sexy, I find it really horrifying. But it's an act that we need. And that need, that desire, is what makes it really funny.

It is not human to be without shame and without desire.

Put temptation on the unenjoyment line.

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

Appetites have only one word in their vocabulary - MORE. Appetites are never fully and finally satisfied. Even after the most satisfying meal imaginable, we eventually find ourselves rummaging through the pantry for a snack.

When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be.

What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.

Eroticism differs from animal sexuality in that human sexuality is limited by taboos and the domain of eroticism is that of the transgression of these taboos. Desire in eroticism is the desire that triumphs over the taboo. It presupposes man in conflict with himself.

For they who think they make an end of temptation by yeilding to it, only set themselves on fire the more.

There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be driven out of the heart like the moneychangers from the temple. Maybe they can, if you patrol your weak points day and night, don't look, don't smell, don't dream.