Quotes About Desire

Living in this present world is designed by God to produce three things in me — longing, readiness, and hope.

Remember the biblical principle of idolatry, desire for a good thing becomes a bad thing when that desire becomes a ruling thing.

Sin causes us to want our own way, to want sovereignty over things we weren't designed to control, and to want to coerce others into the service of our agenda.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. C. S. LEWIS12

Sin makes us better fighters than lovers.

Your heart will never be satisfied in things. No, your heart will be satisfied only in the Giver of the things. If you seek happiness, happiness will elude you.

What will you hook your heart to today in the hope that it will give you life?

You're going to hunger for some success in life. May you hunger for the complete success of the gospel in your heart.

Whatever commands the love of your heart also shapes the direction of your life.

So the desire for good possessions is not wrong, but it must not rule your heart.

The desire for the love of another person is not wrong, but it must not rule your heart.

At the end of the day, what do you long for: for God's grace to do its work or for more of the stuff that this physical created world has to offer?

This desire for transcendence is in all of us because God placed it there. He constructed us to live for more than ourselves.

A desire for a good thing becomes a bad thing when that desire becomes a ruling thing.

You and I have all the power in the world to doubt and no independent power at all to believe. So if you are living by faith, don't proudly pat yourself on the back as if you did something great. No, raise your eyes and your hands toward heaven and thank God for gifting you with the desire and ability to believe.

The Spirit and the Bride say, "Come." And let the one who hears say, "Come." And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price. . . . He who testifies to these things says, "Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! (Rev. 22:17, 20)

Only powerful, rescuing grace can take you from "Let me do what I want to do" to "Guard me against the temptation to do what you know is best for me not to do.

When good things become controlling, they command the affection of our hearts and then shape our words and behavior. When this happens, they take the place in our hearts that only God should have.

May your kingdom so rule my heart that stepping over your boundaries would no longer be attractive to me.

Todo deseo humano debe sostenerse en sumisión a un propósito mayor, los deseos de Dios para Su reino.

Parenting gets to the core of what should motivate every thought, desire, word, decision, or action that every human being has ever taken.

When I opt for a me-centered "more," what I actually get is always much, much less.

When you remember mercy, complaining gives way to gratitude and self-focused desire gives way to worship.

Here is the spiritual reality that you need to know, understand, and live in light of—if you love the gifts and not the Giver, your heart will never be satisfied, but if you love the Giver, your heart will be content and you will be able to enjoy his gifts while keeping them in their proper place.