Quotes About Desire

Prayer is the only adequate way to multiply our efforts fast enough to reap the harvest God desires.

What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds.

The biggest enemy to prayer is praying for something you already have.

Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel.

My prayers are just an outpouring of gratitude for the assurance of that most completely desired Will of God, which will seem all the more desirable in all that is ahead.

The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life.

Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.

Let this be thy whole endeavor, this thy prayer, this thy desire,-that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus only.

Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.

Some pray to marry the man they love, My prayer will somewhat vary; That I love the man I marry.

In souls filled with love, the desire to please God is continual prayer.

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world

People will give themselves to prayer for numerous reasons, but at the core of it all is a God, raging with zealous desire.

Whether we think of, or speak to, God, whether we act or suffer for him, all is prayer, when we have no other object than his love, and the desire of pleasing him.

O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.

The Christian is not always praying; but within his bosom is a heaven-kindled love--fires of desire, fervent longings--which make him always ready to pray, and often engage him in prayer.

Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things.

Yes, I like that word. "More" is a prayer to God, isn't it? Gratitude and plea, all in one.

Do not give your heart to that which does not satisfy your heart.

The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.

I can say that paintings are prayers, they have to do with anything that makes you wish for more that what everyday life provides.

The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.

Prayer is not a device for getting our wills done through heaven, but a desire that God's will may be done on earth through us.

Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.