Quotes about Desire
God's real desire, in addition to displaying His glory, is to claim your heart and the hearts of those you love.
- Priscilla Shirer
Passion is the fuel in the engine of your purpose. It's your "want-to." It's what keeps you going when mundane tasks bore you or difficult ones dissuade you. Passion is what keeps you moving in the direction your best intentions want you to go.
- Priscilla Shirer
We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
- Publilius Syrus
What we learn from the story of Adam and Eve is simple. What we can have is never what we want. And when we can have what we wanted we want something else. It's human nature in a single luminous story. Our sin. Our fall. Our problem.
- R. Joseph Hoffmann
At this moment [of lust] God . . . loses all reality. . . . Satan does not fill us with hatred of God, but with forgetfulness of God" (Dietrich Bonhoeffer).
- Kent Hughes
The mind controlled by lust has an infinite capacity for rationalization.
- Kent Hughes
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us
- Francois Rabelais
For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call.
- Vernon Howard
I've talked to men who feel like they're overly sexual and, therefore, are attracted to any female who walks down the street. I will not excuse his activity with every female just because he feels driven in that direction.
- Tony Evans
The big thing is that you know what you want.
- Earl Nightingale
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give all to love; Obey thy heart....
- Ralph Waldo Emerson