Quotes about Desire
Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.
- RC Sproul
Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness.
- John Piper
We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
- Timothy Keller
If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.
- Victor Hugo
I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let's face it - we all would like to be happy.
- Joyce Meyer
Happiness is the ultimate goal. It is the goal of all other goals.
- Deepak Chopra
We must be happy with what we want when we are in pursuit of what we want.
- Jim Rohn
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
- Albert Camus
The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
- CS Lewis
Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening. . . . Come up. I'll tell your fortune. . . . Ah, you can be had.
- Mae West
When we hear people talk of riches, honors and amusements of the world, let us remember that all things have an end, and let us then say: My God, I wish for You alone and nothing more.
- Alphonsus Liguori