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Quotes About Desire

The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God.
~ Oswald Chambers
None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.
~ Richard Chenevix Trench
Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied.
~ Saint Augustine
A tear is enough water to float a desire to God.
~ Charles Spurgeon
I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty, and Orion walks by and doesn't speak.
~ Sylvia Plath
If you don't feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
~ Timothy Keller
By God, I could make myself bring her that economically halved grapefruit, that sugarless breakfast.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Sure, he had a wife and fifty-four kids, but he looked like a college freshman. A yummy college freshman majoring in Oh-my-god-I-gotta-get-me-some-of-that.
~ Kim Harrison
In the land of God's and Monsters, I was an angel looking to get f-ked hard.
~ Lana Del Rey
God does not fill with His Holy Spirit those who believe in the fullness of the Spirit, or those who desire Him, but those who obey Him.
~ F.B. Meyer
As we see the beauty of God and feel His weightiness in our hearts, our hearts begin to desire Him more than we desire sin. Before the Bible says,"Stop sinning", it says,"Behold your God".
~ J. D. Greear
When God has given you your heart's desire, what have you done with your heart's desire?
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
God, I want to die in you.
~ Katy Evans
The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.
~ Plato
May God grant us a desire for God that supersedes all other desires.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
She'd barely covered up her long, tan legs in a pair of shorts that made me want to go to church on Sunday just to thank God for creating her. - Beau
~ Abbi Glines
When we have the Holy Spirit we have all that is needed to be all that God desires us to be.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand when the fire is going.
~ Caitlin Thomas
All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.
~ William Law
If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that you only feel at your ease when you are far from Him.
~ Francois Fenelon
God, don't let me die. I have so much left to do.
~ Huey Long
Nobody loves me. Sometimes I wish God could come down and hug me.
~ Ja Rule
God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received.
~ Johannes Tauler