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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?
- Alice Walker
Once us feel loved by God, us do the best us can to please him with what us like.
- Alice Walker
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.
- Joel Osteen
If you hold on to what you want so tightly, it almost becomes an idol.
- Joel Osteen
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.
- Joel Beeke
Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.
- Joel Rosenberg
Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.
- John Eldredge
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."
- St. Augustine
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.
- Oprah Winfrey
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.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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.
- George Eliot
Here's one of the great challenges of life. Being happy with what you have while in pursuit of what you want.
- Jim Rohn