Quotes about Desire

She was too beautiful to excite me with the idea of accessibility.

Prayer is the idea of wishing for something from the depth of our hearts and bringing that desire forward to the throne of God.

It is the most fundamental reason why each of us exists. Scripture calls it "abiding in Christ" (John 15:4; cf. 1 John 4:16). God's desire is for us to participate in his own eternal love and life and therefore in his own eternal joy and peace by dwelling in the Son.

In a creation populated with free agents, God doesn't always get what he wants. Augustine and the church tradition that followed him were simply mistaken when they insisted that the will of the omnipotent is always undefeated. Because God desires a creation in which love is a reality, he allows his will to be defeated to some extent.

Love must always start free—but its goal is to become unfree. To be unable not to love is the highest form of freedom in love.

I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David, and for drink I desire His Blood, which is love incorruptible.

People's desire and ability to think — to process, gather, and study information to ensure they arrive at an accurate conclusion — has been greatly diminished.

I'd rather be nowhere with her then somewhere without her.

Science makes us understand how to stay alive longer - feelings give us the reason to want to

Love is giving up control. It's surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—love and controlling power over the other person—are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing.