✦⋆· Allah Almighty revealed unto Prophet Moses (as), ‘Remember that you will be residing in a grave, and that will prevent you from a lot of carnal desires."

✦⋆· said, "Someone who prevails over his desires is stronger than he who captures a city by himself."

✦⋆· said,"Shaytan said, "I have destroyed them with sins and they have destroyed me with their repentance, so when I saw this, I destroyed them with their own desire, so they think that they are guided and they do not seek forgiveness."

● "It is forbidden for every heart that is full of desires to journey through the realms of the Heavens."

● "Allah Almighty said, "By My Might and Exaltedness…no sooner does a servant prefer his own desire over My desire than I disperse his affairs, cover him over with this world, occupy his heart with it, and do not give him thereof other than what I have allotted for him."

✦⋆· said, "Pleasure deters."

● "It is seldom that he who is seduced by pleasures is not destroyed by them."

● "He who takes pleasure in acts of disobedience to Allah, Allah will strike him with humiliation."

● "An ignorant person is a worshipper of his desires."

● "I advise you to keep away from desires, for desires instigate blindness, and it is straying both in the Hereafter and in this world."

● "He who follows his desires, it blinds him, deafens him, humiliates him, and leads him astray."

● "One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death."

● "The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires."

● "Conquer desire the way you would overcome an opponent, and fight it the way you would fight an enemy."

● "Conquer yourselves through abandoning habits and you will overcome them, and combat your desires and you will control them."

● "Take over the desire before it becomes ravenously strong, for if it is empowered it will control you and lead you, and you will not be able to resist it."

● "Maturity lies in opposing desires."

● "He whose desire becomes strong, his determination weakens."

● "It is forbidden for every intellect that is shackled by desires to benefit from wisdom."

● "Whenever wisdom is strengthened carnal desire is weakened."

● "He whose intellect is complete finds carnal desires insignificant."

● "Chastity weakens carnal desire."

● "Repelling one’s desire is the best way to eradicate it, and fulfilling it only strengthens it."

● "In controlling desire there is immunity from every deficiency."

✦⋆· said, Allah Almighty has said, "By My Might and Exaltedness, My Greatness and Loftiness, and by My High Status, no sooner does a servant prefer My desire over his own desire than I will suffice him in his losses, I will guarantee his sustenance upon the Heavens and the earth, and I will be behind his every transaction with every trader."

✦⋆· said,"Be on your guard against your desires as you guard against your enemies, for there is nothing worse as an enemy to men than following their desires and the consequences of their tongues [i.e. speech]."

● Imam Sadiq (as), when asked, "Where does the path to comfort lie?", replied, "In opposing desire."

✦⋆· said, "When two things come your way and you do not know which one is good and correct, then look at which one of them is closer to your desire and then oppose it, for most good is found in opposing your desires."