Quotes About Desire

What you can vividly imagine ,ardently desire and enthusiastically act upon shall surely come to pass .

Avarice is the sphincter of the heart.

All this and heaven too.

There may be idols in the heart, where there are none in the sanctuary.

Come, Lord Jesus, put an end to this state of sin, sorrow, and temptation;

the more we see of God's glory in his works the more we shall desire to see.

Wherever there is true grace, there is a desire for more grace.

Acceptance with God is the great thing we should desire and aim at in all our religious services, particularly in the Lord's supper, which is our eating of the sin-offering.

The carnal mind makes a man a perfect slave to his vicious appetite.

Those, and those only, shall find God to their comfort, who seek him with all their heart, that is, who are entirely devoted to him, earnestly desirous of his favour and solicitous to obtain it.

Let us endeavour then, by reading, contemplation, and prayer, to know as much of heaven as we can, that we may be desiring and longing to be there.

We need. To need is to be human.

Love is the wanting, and the having, and the choosing, and the becoming. Love is a desire to see the person we love be and become all he or she is capable of being and becoming. Love is a willingness to lay down our own personal plans, desires, and agenda for the good of the relationship. Love is delayed gratification, pleasure, and pain. Love is being able to live and thrive apart, but choosing to be together.

What is resistance? It's that sluggish feeling of not wanting to do something that you know is good for you, it's the inclination to do something that you unabashedly know is not good for you, and it's everything in between. It's the desire and tendency to delay something you should be doing right now.

People do stupid things because they mistakenly believe those stupid things will make them happy.

If you desire to be a person of hope, a person who has the will that what is good might be reality, you must be a person of two things: meaning and action.

You cannot live without dreams. Dreams foster hope, and hope is one of the forces by which men and women live.

The surest signs of holiness are an insatiable desire to become all God created us to be, an unwavering commitment to the will of God, and an unquenchable concern for unholy people.

Hope is not merely a wish that something good might happen—it is the firm confidence and desire that the promises of God will be fulfilled.

Dreams are the core of every person. It is there that our passion for life is ignited.

Some people are hungry for comfort; others are hungry to belong; still others for success, sex, safety, adventure, security, travel. To be human is to be hungry. Do you know what you are hungry for?

No one person can satisfy our immense desire for happiness. And it is not fair to attach that hope to any one person. So many relationships have died under the weight of this misplaced expectation.

Ya que tales hombres viven como si no tuvieran que rendirle servicio a Dios, ni buscando a Cristo, como si no tuviesen que mortificar las pasiones carnales, sin negar el yo, ni creyendo en la Escritura, que no piensan en el día del juicio, ni que el infierno tiene que ser temido, que no desean el cielo, sin valorar su alma; pero se entregan a una sensualidad peor que salvaje, "para cometer con avidez toda clase de impureza,"[43] viviendo sin Dios en el mundo.

When you're having sex again, it makes you wonder why you weren't before. What could possibly have been bad enough to make you stop doing THAT?