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Quotes About Desire

May God enable me to have a single eye and a simple heart, desiring to please God, to do good to my fellow creatures, and testify my gratitude to my adorable Redeemer.
~ William Wilberforce
Moses desired to see God; I do not desire to see God;He desires to see me
~ Bayazid Bastami
God is more eager to answer than we are to ask.
~ Smith Wigglesworth
If we make God our heart's delight, we shall have our heart's desire.
~ T. B. Joshua
May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.
~ A. B. Simpson
Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
The greatness of our love of God must be tested by the desire we have of suffering for His love.
~ Philip Neri
The question is not, "Do you want to go to heaven?" The question is, "Do you want God?"
~ Paul Washer
May the passion to be all that God wants you to be sweep across your soul like a gentle breeze.
~ T. D. Jakes
Man's will is free to follow his inclinations, but fallen man's inclinations are always and invariably away from God.
~ R. C. Sproul
At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.
~ R. C. Sproul
The soul's deepest thirst is for God Himself, who has made us so that we can never be satisfied without Him.
~ F. F. Bruce
The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.
~ John Piper
God has made us for Himself, and our hearts can never know rest and perfect satisfaction until they find it in Him.
~ Hannah Hurnard
My greatest desire is that I may perceive the God whom I find everywhere in the external world, in like manner also within and inside myself.
~ Johannes Kepler
When you are hunger for God, He will fill you.
~ Jentezen Franklin
In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.
~ Philip Yancey
The deepest desire of our hearts is for union for God. God created us for union with himself. This is the original purpose of our lives.
~ Brennan Manning
When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor.
~ Walter Hilton
A hunger for beauty is at its heart a hunger for God.
~ Michael Card
Dante to Abby: My God you are going to kill me. Again
~ Alexandra Ivy
God gives salvation to the needy, but gives the deep things of His heart to the hungry who refuse to live without them.
~ Mike Bickle
There is much more of God available than we have ever known or imagined, but we have become so satisfied with where we are and what we have that we don't press in for God's best.
~ Tommy Tenney
Nothing short of God can satisfy your soul.
~ John Wesley