Quotes About Desire

When you are satisfied with the Giver, because you have found in him the life you were looking for, you are freed from the ravenous quest for satisfaction that is the discouraging existence of so many people. Yes, it is true that your heart will rest only ever when it has found its rest in him.

Whatever sits on the other side of your "if-only" is where you are looking for life, peace, joy, hope,

Yet the message of the garden of Eden is that sin makes us quest for God's position. We want life to work according to our will and conform to our plan. This desire to be at the center never goes anywhere good, personally or relationally. Self-centeredness is at the core of sin's dysfunction, another powerful evidence of our need for rescuing grace.

Because earth will never be your savior. This physical, created world, with all of its sights, sounds, locations, experiences, and relationships, has no capacity to make your heart content. This physical world was designed by God to be one big finger that points you to the only place where your heart will find satisfaction and rest. Your heart will rest only when it finds its rest in God, and God alone.

There is woven inside each of us a desire for something more—a craving to be part of something bigger, greater, and more profound

Because we live for our happiness, happiness always eludes us—???because every fulfilled desire is followed by yet another desire.

May your kingdom come in all that I think, desire, and say. May your kingdom come in my marriage and in my family. May your kingdom come in my work. May your kingdom come in my leisure. May your kingdom so rule my heart that stepping over your boundaries would no longer be attractive to me.

Many people will get up today and in some way will ask creation to be their savior, that is, to give them what only God is able to give.

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. —Bill Hoest

The heart of true prayer is vertical confession, not horizontal desire.

Life is all about what we look to to fill us.

there is a deeper hunger within you than the physical hunger with which you are so familiar.

your body hungers to be filled, but your soul hungers even more.

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

want something hard enough and work for it, and you'll get it, but when you get it it will either prove to be not wholly what you wanted, or something will happen to spoil it.

Ama bir ÅŸeyi yeterince çok istersen her zaman çare bulunur.

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge—and has to content oneself with dreaming.

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

The constant pursuit of material possessions/money status or sexual relationships, and so on, can be problematic.

You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible.

The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have — and that is a moral problem, not an economic one.