Quotes about Desire
May the things of this world so lose their power over us that we do not in the slightest wish to be 'worldly'; nay, we even delight in not remaining 'in the world.'
- Watchman Nee
Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.
- Aristotle
Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.
- John Mayer
Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!
- Dorothy Day
God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely.
- Anselm of Canterbury
Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph. Prayer is life striving, toiling everywhere and everywhen for that ultimate victory.
- G Campbell Morgan
Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself
- Sadhu Sundar Singh
When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
- Teresa of Avila
God answers the prayer we ought to have made rather than the prayer we did make.
- JI Packer
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
- St. Augustine