Good quote on lust

"Frederick Buechner, an acclaimed author and Presbyterian minister, has written, "Lust is the ape that gibbers in our loins. Tame him as we will by day, he rages all the wilder in our dreams by night. Just when we think we're safe from him, he raises up his ugly head and smirks, and there's no river in the world flows cold and strong enough to strike him down. Almighty God, why dost thou deck men out with such a loathsome toy?"

"All of us can identify with Buechner's plaintive query. But some identify more deeply, more desperately, than others. They cry out for deliverance, but heaven seems to turn a deaf ear. They feel plagued by sexual temptation all the day and all the night. They reject adultery out of Christian conviction but feel driven to pale voyeurism to satisfy the inner craving. But rather than satisfy, it only serves to inflame the desires all the more, a little like leading a starving person past a bakery. Indulgence is followed by guilt and remorse, which is followed by more indulgence and more guilt and more remorse.

"We must be slow to condemn and quick to listen to all who are plagued by lust. The temptations are great in our sex-soaked culture. The distortion of our sexuality into lust can take a very tangled, twisted route. Only by the grace of God and the loving support of the Christian fellowship can our lust-inflamed sexuality be straightened upright again."

-Richard J. Foster, The Challenged of the Disciplined Life, p. 104.