Quotes about Desire
Living in this present world is designed by God to produce three things in me — longing, readiness, and hope.
- Paul David Tripp
Remember the biblical principle of idolatry, desire for a good thing becomes a bad thing when that desire becomes a ruling thing.
- Paul David Tripp
Sin causes us to want our own way, to want sovereignty over things we weren't designed to control, and to want to coerce others into the service of our agenda.
- Paul David Tripp
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. C. S. LEWIS12
- Paul David Tripp
Sin makes us better fighters than lovers.
- Paul David Tripp
We're all spiritually promiscuous, running from lover to lover, giving the loyalty of our hearts to things other than God.
- Paul David Tripp
Your heart will never be satisfied in things. No, your heart will be satisfied only in the Giver of the things. If you seek happiness, happiness will elude you.
- Paul David Tripp
What will you hook your heart to today in the hope that it will give you life?
- Paul David Tripp
You're going to hunger for some success in life. May you hunger for the complete success of the gospel in your heart.
- Paul David Tripp
Whatever commands the love of your heart also shapes the direction of your life.
- Paul David Tripp
So the desire for good possessions is not wrong, but it must not rule your heart.
- Paul David Tripp
The desire for the love of another person is not wrong, but it must not rule your heart.
- Paul David Tripp