Quotes About Desire

True desire in the heart for anything good is God's proof to you sent beforehand to indicate that it's yours already.

Why did everything always change when all you wanted, all you had ever humbly asked of whatever God there might be, was that certain things be allowed to stay the same?

God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.

God Chasers are people whose passion for being in His presence press them to chase the impossible in hopes that the uncatchable might catch them!

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.

Beware of begging God for things you don't have to have.

The more we possess, the more distant we grow from God.

The only thing harder than waiting on God, is wishing that you had!

My soul has learned yet more fully than ever, this day, that there is no satisfaction to be found in earthly things-God alone can give rest to my spirit.

When you have become God's in the measure he desires, then he himself will bestow you upon others; unless, to your greater glory, he chooses to keep you all to himself.

Our sincere desire should be to have both clean hands and a pure heart - both a remission of sins from day to day and to walk guiltless before God.

Doesn't every encounter with God only cause us to thirst for Him more?

There is no group or type of people anywhere in the world that is excluded from salvation, because God desires that the gospel be proclaimed to all without exception.

God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.

God, it's so painful when something that's so close is still so far out of reach.

You are probably at your sanest when you come to the place where you abandon all else but your desire for God.

I would be in Italy working on a film, longing for something simple - like, God, I would just kill to be sitting at a barbecue having a beer right now.

If you desire the spirit of God you must keep the commandments of God.

Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God's idea of what He wants to do for me.

Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.

God, grant us our desires, and grant them quickly.

We came to serve God and to get rich, as all men wish to do.

God takes men's hearty desires and will, instead of the deed, where they have not power to fulfill it; but he never took the bare deed instead of the will.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.