“We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us”

“We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.”

“What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes intense desire.”

“Jesus designed the Lord's prayer to reveal His desire to give us more fully, graciously, and suitably the very things we most want but seek elsewhere. He does not want to deny us our desires but helps remove the false objects of our affections so that we will have the greater blessings he longs to lavish on us.”

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.”

“The music brought us what it seemed / We had long desired, but in a form / so rarefied there was no emptiness of sensation”