Quotes About Desire

Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which is their own? All we have is the Almighty's; and shall not God have his own when he calls for it?

Great God! I'd rather be a Pagan.

I have come a hundred miles," said a minister, "to get some of Mr. Moody's spirit." " You don't want my spirit," was the reply. "What you want is the Spirit of God.

It is bad to want something that not even God could attain, especially when the impossibility becomes obvious.

I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.

God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy.

I had no desire to be in the movies. All my training had been in the theater, thank God.

I am athirst for God, the living God.

I've never been tempted by God but I like his trappings.

God deliver me from the dread asbestos of "other things." Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame.

It [Adam's act] cast off the authority of God, usurped his prerogative, and gave the mind up to the dominion of natural desire

It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.

If you have the desire and passion to do something, and it's within God's will, you will achieve it.

All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute.

God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation... Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.

This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.

All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking after the grace of Baptism.

Oh God, make me good, but not yet.

God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.

Are you satisfied being filled with good information about God, or do you long to burst into His manifest presence?

The desire to fulfill the purpose for which we were created is a gift from God.

Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind.

God is a kooky God who can scarcely bear to be without us.

So long as lust, whether of the world or flesh, smells sweet in our nostrils, so long we are loathsome to God.