Quotes About Desire

This might come as a shock: if you aren't happy now, maybe you haven't wanted it enough.

He'd found the virgin, the sacrificial lamb, and in a way he was obsessed with me.

meekness and lowliness of heart are to be the distinguishing feature of the disciple, just as they were of the Master. And further, that this humility is not something that will come of itself, but that it must be made the object of special desire, prayer, faith, and practice.

The reality is that a heart desire for prayer is lacking. Many do not know how to spend half an hour with God! It is not that they absolutely do not pray; they may pray every day—but they have no joy in prayer. Joy is the sign that God is everything to you.

when the serpent breathed the poison of his pride, the desire to be as God, into the hearts of our first parents, that they too fell from their high estate into all the wretchedness in which man is now sunk. In heaven and earth, pride, self-exaltation, is the gate and the birth, and the curse, of hell.

They want to claim, want to take, and want to get, and yet what they crave eludes their grasp. Why? Because they do not wait for God to give it.

Nothing searches and cleanses the heart like true prayer. It teaches one to ask such questions as these: Do I really desire what I pray for? Am I willing to cast out everything to make room for what God is prepared to give me? Is the prayer of my lips really the prayer of my life?

Yet our Lord really meant it, for in the last night with His disciples He promised them that the power of the Spirit would enable them to live a life of obedience. Lord, I do love You and it is my greatest desire to obey Your commands. Please help me to do Your will.

with the abiding in Him. It is with the desire

The sooner I learn to forget myself in the desire that He may be glorified, the richer will the blessing be that prayer will bring to myself.

Let us never be afraid to be still before God; we shall then carry that stillness into our work; and when we go to church on Sunday, or to the prayer-meeting on week-days, it will be with the one desire that nothing may stand betwixt us and God, and that we may never be so occupied with hearing and listening as to forget the presence of God.

Do you love Christ? Do you long to be in Christ, and not like Him?

it is that which made the angels, Jesus himself, and the holiest saints humble. It is the first and chief mark of the relationship of the creature to God, of the Son to the Father—it is the secret of blessedness, the desire to be nothing, that allows God to be all in all.

will not be withheld from it. What is done in the will of God must have the mighty blessing of God." And so let our first desire be to have the will of God revealed.

By Your grace I desire to do Your will in everything, every moment of every day." Say: "Lord God, not a word upon my tongue but for Your glory. Not a movement of my temper but for Your glory. Not an affection of love or hate in my heart but for Your glory, and according to Your blessed will.

fix your desire on this one thing: to be filled with the Spirit of God.

We wish in a halfhearted way to be better than we are. But how few there are who truly ''hunger and thirst after righteousness''; how few who intensely long for a life of obedience and the continual consciousness of being pleasing to God.

Let nothing less than these--the desire, the decision to live only for the glory of the Father, even as Christ did; the acceptance of Him with His life and strength working it in us; the joyful assurance that we can live to the glory of God, because Christ lives in us;--let this be the spirit of our daily life.

what do I want from life? And I say: "Less!

The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be?

Who on earth would not long to be fought for? Is this not the very heart of human existence, to be worth fighting for, worth losing everything for?

Despite all their fears, we ask very little of the ones who never loved us. We do not ask for sympathy or pain or compassion. We simply want to know why.

What Frank wrote: It's a summer day, and I want to be wanted more than anything in the world.

All he wanted was to be young together and in love. Too much to ask? "Nobody gets that," she would say. "Nobody. Your problem is you're convinced you have a type." He would say of course he had a type, and she would say: "Give that up. Find someone who treats you decently.