Quotes About Desire

Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.

Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought.

Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph.

Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.

Prayer involves transformed passions. In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God's thoughts after Him: to desire the things He desires, to love the things He loves, to will the things He wills.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.

The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day.

The prayer of Ajax was for light.

One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse.

God's pleasure is at the end of our prayers.

In my prayers I never said I needed a home. I said I wanted a sanctuary.

To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire.

There must be fired affections before our prayers will go up.

We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.

"What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.

Through prayer, our free agency is used to admit and confess our deep desire to have God's help in our lives.

If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.

I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man.

Prayer bends omnipotence of heaven to your desire. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.

You haunt my days and dreams.

The only prayer which a well-meaning man can pray is O ye gods give me whatever is fitting unto me!

Before we can pray "Lord Thy Kingdom come " we must be willing to pray "My Kingdom go."

Whatever things ye desire when ye pray believe that you receive them and ye shall have them.