Quotes about Desire

I treated you so mean. Like you was a servant. And all because Albert married you. And I didn't even want him for a husband,' she say. 'I never really wanted Albert for a husband. But just to choose me, you know?

Once us feel loved by God, us do the best us can to please him with what us like.

Keep the right perspective Some people would love to have your problems. They would gladly trade places with you. They would love to have the job that frustrates you. They would love to sit in traffic in that car you don't like. They would love to have your husband, who gets on your nerves. They would love to live in the house you think is too small.

If you hold on to what you want so tightly, it almost becomes an idol.

An important mark of saving faith, then, is that a convert not only wants to be delivered from the corruption of sin, but that he also hungers and thirsts after righteousness and holiness.

Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.

Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.

Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."

You need to dream a bigger dream for yourself. That is the lesson. Hold the highest vision possible for your life and it can come true.

I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life. What I think they are really expressing is a desire for a life with less pressure.

Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.

Here's one of the great challenges of life. Being happy with what you have while in pursuit of what you want.