Quotes about Desire

The heart of true prayer is vertical confession, not horizontal desire.

Life is all about what we look to to fill us.

there is a deeper hunger within you than the physical hunger with which you are so familiar.

your body hungers to be filled, but your soul hungers even more.

Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.

David's passion was turned toward Bathshcba, which resulted in an affair.

We are qualified for Christian service by our praying not our preaching, by our desire to worship him and not our workload on his behalf, by knowing Jesus personally and not just by knowing a lot of interesting things about him. If you lose God's presence you lose everything, but if you know his presence you already have everything you will ever need.

So I'm waiting for God, and God is waiting for me to see if I am really waiting for him, and not just wanting things from him.

Augustine once said that God puts salt on our lips that we may thirst for him. Sometimes it's the salt of our tears.

America does not know the difference between money and sex. It treats sex like money because it treats sex as a medium of exchange, and it treats money like sex because it expects its money to get pregnant and reproduce.

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.