Sentence examples for harmful desires from inspiring English sources

Then a long passage about money – "Those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction" – from Paul's first letter to Timothy.

Desire satisfaction is also rejected because of harmful desires or low desires.

Nirvana means psychological freedom from worries, fears and harmful desires that cause of our suffering.

When you face temptation, though, you will need to control the harmful desire to give into it to maintain any degree of holiness.

Implicit in Mr. Rich's lament and my own pursuit of Wasserstein's essential truths is the notion that secrets are inevitably harmful and the desire for privacy somehow suspect, and neurotic, if not downright nefarious.

It is only by recognizing the harmful influences of desire that one begins to seek calmness and emptiness of mind.

"It is rationalization that allows them to avoid admitting that their desires are harmful and illegal," said Bill Walsh, a former commander of the Crimes Against Children Unit for the Dallas Police Department, who founded the most prominent annual national conference on the issue.

Desires are harmful to both body and mind, as Ji Kang emphasizes in "On Nourishing Life".

The iconic army offered Ms. Nourry an ideal means to raise questions about the harmful consequences of the desire for male offspring, problems faced by several Asian countries including China and India.

In these sentences, the British naturalist points out that the doctrine of independent acts of creations is pernicious (i.e., harmful) to man's desire to understand all aspects and processes that occur in the natural world.

The study provides evidence of both desired and harmful effects related to the implementation of DRGs.