Quotes about Desire

To allow God to be God we must follow him for who he is and what he intends, and not for what we want or what we prefer.

We see through a glass darkly because all we want is to be comfortable.

How can an object that wants nothing, fears nothing, enjoys nothing, needs nothing, and cares about nothing have a mind?

pleasure brings no lasting fulfillment.

Pleasure that profanes is pleasure that destroys.

Getting to Mars is a problem. Falling in love is a mystery."2

We hunger for pleasure that goes beyond the physical because ultimately we are spiritual beings.

As Paul said in Romans 7:16 and 18, "I do what I do not want to do… For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out" (NIV).

Augustine said, "You [Lord God] have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.

The seduction was complete. The lie is what people want, so why get hung up on the truth?

He found Luciana sitting alone at a table in the Allied officers' night club, where the drunken Anzac major who had brought her there had been stupid enough to desert her for the ribald company of some singing comrades at the bar. All right, I'll dance with you, she said, before Yossarian could even speak. But I won't let you sleep with me. Who asked you? Yossarian asked her. You don't want to sleep with me? she exclaimed with surprise. I don't want to dance with you.

I don't want to make sacrifices. I want to make dough.