Quotes About Desire

In the most secret heart of every intellectual ... there lies hidden ... the hope of power, the desire to bring his ideas to reality by imposing them on his fellow man.

The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!

That's why I hate the concept of falling in love. It makes you weak. It takes away your strength. Your power. Your rational sense. EVERYTHING.

The universe is infinite, so there is room for everyone, for every belief, for every custom, and for every desire. You are in competition with no one but yourself.

Which is worse? Lust for the purchasing power of money, or the kind of lust that covets power over others? Let the history of 20th Century socialist revolutions answer that question.

I don't ever want to get old. Spare me that. Have you the power? No, even you don't have the power, alas.

Love is a dramatic driving force, the most powerful potion that we drink willingly.

But I could control these flames. It was an irresistible urge, one that I didn't want to ignore. - Aurora

If he touches me, I will succumb. I know the power he wields over me and my traitorous body. I know.

In the midst of wanting to be powerful, I found a weakness.

Power is like a woman you want to stay in bed with forever.

Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.

God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely.

Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph. Prayer is life striving, toiling everywhere and everywhen for that ultimate victory.

Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself

When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing.

The sooner I learn to forget myself in the desire that He may be glorified, the richer will be the blessing that prayer will bring to myself. No one ever loses by what he sacrifices to the Father.

God answers the prayer we ought to have made rather than the prayer we did make.

Sometimes it helps to begin our prayers by confessing we don't feel like praying-and ask God to help us with our preference to be doing something else.

Your desire is your prayer.

If I had a prayer, it would be this: "God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen."

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

Wish' is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.

Most Christians expect little from God, ask little, and therefore receive little and are content with little.