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Quotes About Desire

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.
~ Anne Sexton
Faith means wanting God and wanting to want nothing else.
~ Brennan Manning
How terrible the need for God.
~ Theodore Roethke
Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.
~ Virgil
Remember, if God doesn't give you what you want, that's because it's not what you need.
~ Zane
Wolves eat cats for dinner. By God, I wanna be a wolf. ~Kane Tyler~
~ Lora Leigh
The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
~ Martin Luther
What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me.
~ Rick Warren
All desire but that of doing God's holy will has been extinguished in me.
~ Rose Philippine Duchesne
We're the only creature God ever created that doesn't want to adapt. We want to make it stand still. And one thing that's constant is nature is constantly changing.
~ Don Young
You'll find another.' God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself.
~ Francois Fenelon
You know, it is not God's desire to conceal but to reveal. The word revelation means "unveiling."
~ Greg Laurie
God is waiting to satisfy us, yet His goodness will not satisfy us if we are already full of other things.
~ John Bevere
If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.
~ Martin Luther
To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love.
~ A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God
I want to inspire people to desire to see the praise that comes from the one and only true God. Above all else. That is what God has laid on my heart and the message that I bring to you.
~ R. T. Kendall
Most Christians are satisfied living as common Christians, without an insatiable hunger for the deeper things of God.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
God made our souls to long for Him, and we are not fully satisfied without His presence in our lives.
~ Beth Moore
When God's mercies are coming, their footfalls are our desires to pray.
~ Charles Spurgeon
O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.
~ Christian Scriver
My God, give me neither poverty nor riches; but whatsoever it may be Thy will to give, give me with it a heart which knows humbly to acquiesce in what is Thy will.
~ Christian Scriver
The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.
~ Coventry Patmore
When God calls, it has the intensity of a shout and the authority of a summons. When He calls, He secures His own desired results.
~ Steven J Lawson