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Quotes About Desire

O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
~ David
The resources of heaven are ready and waiting for the people of God who desire to make much of him in this world
~ David Platt
Who God is and what Christ did have huge implications for who we are personally and what we desire sexually.
~ David Platt
I want it all quickly 'cause I don't want God to stop and think and wonder if I'm getting more than my share.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
The young among us are, as a general thing, allied to the world. But few maintain a special warfare against the internal foe. But few have an earnest, anxious desire to know and do the will of God.
~ Ellen G. White
God is indeed a jealous God. He cannot bear to see, that we had rather not with him, but with each other play.
~ Emily Dickinson
God, keep me from what they call 'households,'
~ Emily Dickinson
We all wanted what we wanted, and when the Lord fulfilled HIS purpose rather than ours, we struck out against him. In anger. In disappointment. Yet, it is God's will that prevails.
~ Francine Rivers
He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.
~ Francis Bacon
...if God is truly the greatest good on this earth, would He be loving us if He didn't draw us toward what is best for us (even if that happens to be Himself)?
~ Francis Chan
There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
~ Francois Rabelais
Cry to god. If you do that just for a couple minutes with your whole being, just like a child who so badly wants a cookie. You will break through the barrier of the mind.
~ Frederick Lenz
If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God--then having it taken away, forever.
~ Glen Duncan
Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
~ J. Carter Brown
God, I wish you could have been there.
~ J. D. Salinger
God, I miss you," he said in a voice that cracked. "Every night. Every day.
~ J.R. Ward
And I thought, there was no God, there was only what you wanted.
~ Janet Fitch
It's our God forsaken right to be loved, loved, loved.
~ Jason Mraz
Redemption, transformation--God how she wanted these things. Every day, every minute. Didn't everyone?
~ Jennifer Egan
Your mind is like, oh my God, I know this is wrong, but your body just gives in.
~ Jessica Hahn
He's always been absolutely gorgeous and had that charm, but he was in a steady relationship until quite recently, so it's only of late that all the girls are like, 'Oh my God, oh my God'.
~ Joanna Page
Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
God knows how ardently I wish I had ten lives.
~ John Herschel