Quotes about Desire
Most Christians expect little from God, ask little, and therefore receive little and are content with little.
- AW Pink
What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds.
- Mary Baker Eddy
The biggest enemy to prayer is praying for something you already have.
- Bill Johnson
Let this be thy whole endeavor, this thy prayer, this thy desire,-that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus only.
- Thomas a Kempis
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
- Teresa of Avila
In souls filled with love, the desire to please God is continual prayer.
- John Wesley
People will give themselves to prayer for numerous reasons, but at the core of it all is a God, raging with zealous desire.
- Mike Bickle
O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.
- St. Augustine
Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things.
- John Wesley
Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.
- Amy Carmichael
Consistent prayer is the desire to do right.
- Mary Baker Eddy
In my prayers I never said I needed a home. I said I wanted a sanctuary.
- Mary Anne Radmacher