Quotes about Want

In the vacuum created by fear and ignorance and hunger and want, it's evil, not good, that rushes to fill the void.

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

You will find what you are looking for when you realize God has placed those longings in your heart as a divine desire; your hunger is a gift from God to draw you to Him. It's a holy want with a holy fulfillment. Everything you really need and want is offered by and found in Him.

Sturdy contentment that can weather the storms of difficulty and want is always rooted in worship.

Here is one of the most beautiful fruits of grace—a heart that is content, more given to worship than demand and more given to the joy of gratitude than the anxiety of want.

Now I want you to know, brothers, that my circumstances have actually served to advance the gospel.

Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. Faith saves, because it owns the complete salvation of another, and not because it contributes anything to that salvation.

Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?

We don't just struggle with want; we struggle with blessing as well.

We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.

If you don't want to use the army, I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully,

It's rather a strong check to one's self-complacency to find how much of one's right doing depends on not being in want of money.