Quotes about Desire
The sexuality doesn't end. It really doesn't. You're sexual your whole life, if you're a sexual person.
- Erica Jong
The zest for life, which is the source of all passion and all insight, even divine, does not come to us from ourselves.... It is God who has to give us the impulse of wanting him.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.
- Epictetus
Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
- Oswald Chambers
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
- Cormac McCarthy
Dreams come true when desire transforms into concrete actions.
- Napoleon Hill
We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.
- Joseph Campbell
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
If we desire the "hand of God" (i.e., his power) to return to our churches, we should focus less on the personalities and abilities of people, and more on Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit.
- Jim Cymbala
The more we pray, the more we sense our need to pray. And the more we sense a need to pray, the more we want to pray.
- Jim Cymbala
Love always desires to bless the object of its affection.
- Jim Cymbala
The Creator of all things is looking throughout the whole earth for a certain kind of heart.
- Jim Cymbala