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Quotes About Desire

We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.
~ J. C. Ryle
A thong. God bless the thong. He hooked his fingers in the silk sides and tugged, rolling the silk down her legs until it hit the floor, his favorite place for panties.
~ Jill Shalvis
I am discontented because I have not these things which God never yet promised me, and therefore I sin much against the Gospel, and against the grace of faith.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them.
~ Saint Augustine
Pentecost is a celebration of God... a celebration of God's power... a celebration of God's desire to empower us and to dwell within us.
~ Mark Hart
God will not make you do something you don't want to do - He will just make you wish you had.
~ Wayman Mitchell
Our desire for approval can only truly be met by receiving God's acceptance and approval of us.
~ Joyce Meyer
My God is a God who wants me to have things. He wants me to bling. He wants me to be the hottest thing on the block.
~ Mary J. Blige
There is only one sin god will not forgive Boss, and that is to deny a woman who is in wanting ~ Zorba
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Whatever is your greatest joy and treasure, that is your god.
~ Charles Spurgeon
God is not a genie in a bottle, and your wish is not His command. His command better be your wish.
~ Mark Batterson
Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?
~ Propertius
O God, make me good, but not yet.
~ Evelyn Waugh
God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.
~ James A. Baldwin
"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto you." Follow God and you shall have whatever you desire.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
God, I'm glad I'm not me.
~ Bob Dylan
People only get in the afterlife what they have most wanted-either to have God as Savior and Master or to be their own Saviors and Masters.
~ Timothy Keller
Prayer is naught but a rising desire of the heart into God by withdrawing of the heart from all earthly thoughts.
~ Walter Hilton
I have one reason why you should walk away from that temptation right now. One reason: God. Is. Better.
~ Francis Chan
Trying to fill the God-sized hole in our hearts with things other than God is like trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles.
~ Peter Kreeft
Do I pray that the Lord gives me the desire to do his will, or do I look for compromises because I'm afraid of God's will?
~ Pope Francis