Quotes About Desire

When our deepest desire is not the things of God, or a favor from God, but God Himself, we cross a threshold.

Good leaders hold positive, views of the future. We believe God fulfills our dreams, and our dreams are enlarged. Our desires exceed what we currently have and where we currently are.

My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it.

Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.

To truly know God we must long for Him without any other motive than reaching God Himself.

God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all the beautiful expanse around it as dangerous and swarming with snakes.

... our natural Will is to have God, and the Good Will of God is to have us; and we may never cease from willing nor from longing till we have Him in fullness of joy: and then may we no more desire.

Desire for God without doctrine is blind; doctrine without desire is empty.

Where true inner freedom is, there is God. And where God is, there we want to be.

God never does anything according to what you want. It's never your will. It's His will.

He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

When I ate vanilla frosting straight from the can, I could feel God standing right nest to me like a real best friend, watching, and smiling, and wishing he had a mouth.

God doesn't want you to go to church. He wants you to want to go to church.

When you touch me, good God.

It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Nothing will be able to hinder us, if we desire and seek God alone, and take pleasure in nothing else.

Wanting to be a rock star, I get it. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, dude! The freedom!'

We have become so self-centered that we go to God only for something from Him, and not for God Himself.

When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him.

All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God.

I earned the name from the Greek god Zelos who is the god of rivalry.

Many, however, gives themselves to God, but preserve still in their hearts some attachment to creatures, which prevents them from belonging entirely to God.