“If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God spare me from the desire for love, approval, and appreciation. Amen.””
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
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Journal entry (1 August 1777), published in The Journal of the Rev. John Wesley (1827), p. 104
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“If I had a desire, it would be to be free from desire.”
Rolling Stone interview (June 1970)

“Here I stand; I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen!”
As reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 186; and in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: Here I stand; I can do no other.
Source: Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses
17 May 2021
Tom Peters Daily, Weekly Quote

“It may be yet the Gods will have me glad!
Yet, Love, I would that thee and pain I had!”
"The Death of Paris".
The Earthly Paradise (1868-70)
Context: Forgetfulness of grief I yet may gain;
In some wise may come ending to my pain;
It may be yet the Gods will have me glad!
Yet, Love, I would that thee and pain I had!

1880s, Reminiscences (1881)

Source: The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles
Believing Three Ways in One God: A Reading of the Apostles' Creed (1992)