Quotes About Desire

For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it teaches people to deny their hearts, their true selves.

One of the consistent themes you'll find throughout the Bible is that God will always provide the necessary information about Jesus Christ to someone who sincerely desires to receive that revelation.

Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God's debtor.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Even though you can't finally grasp me, guess what? I still want to be known.

We would all believe in God if he served our every whim. Belief is not about an easy life or even truth. Belief is something you have regardless.

Staying with him. Letting him touch you, hold you, GOD. It's eating me alive. You may be keeping Sawyer from hating me but you're only making me hate him

She wouldn't come back. She hated me. She hated Nan. She hated my mom. She hated her father. She wouldn't come back here... but God, I wanted her to.

As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of God and our own conscience.

God, why didn't you make us all dogs?

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that.

I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed.

There's a great expression that says, "God is a jealous lover," and it's a very accurate expression that has nothing to do with whatever you see god or nature as.

Rain is used as white noise when God is disgusted by too much prayer, when the sky is stuffed to bursting with the noise of what people need.

God desires to change us from the inside out. Renewing our minds, starving our self-destructive tendencies, and teaching us to form new habits.

He (God) doesn't need me, but He desires me.

God bless them pretty women, I wish they was mine, Their breath is as sweet, The dew on the vine.

We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.

God knows we're all drawn to what's beautiful and broken.

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals.

Contentment is mostly a matter of talking yourself into believing that God will not strike you too hard for leaning in the direction of your hungers.

We are the farmers of the future. If we desire all the gifts of God, if we seek to win the Golden Crown, we can't just sit back and watch. We have to make it happen.

Like God's own chocolate, I'd lick her shadow off a hot sidewalk

Isn't it god's own image? tramping his thirty miles a day after partridges, or a little rubber ball? wouldn't you like to be like that, well off, and quite the thing?