Quotes about Desire

And both are gone. And ironically, I'm drawn to repeat my well known apothegm of futility: that, just as the person who wants praise will never be satisfied with praise, the person who wants love cannot be satisfied with love. No want is ever fulfilled. And I therefore still don't know whether it is better to fear God and keep His commandments or to curse God and die. Fortunately, I've been able to get by very neatly without doing either.

Certainly,nothing proceeded according to desire.In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental. Good intentions had miscarried, and bad ones had not improved.

Thomas Aquinas writes: "There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.

Everytime you feed the flesh, you strenghten it. This is good if you are trying to build a good habit, but detrimental if you are trying to stop a bad habit. The way to kill the flesh is to starve it; to stop feeding it.

Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too—maybe even yours.

We can get excited by thinking about what all we have or can have, OR we can get discouraged by thinking about what all we don't have.

Many people want guidance from God, but they don't want to lay aside other things in order to hear His voice. But David narrowed down everything he wanted to just one thing—more of God all the days of his life. I believe the only thing that truly satisfies the longing within us is to know God more intimately today than we did yesterday.

People cannot change people. Only God can get inside a person's heart and cause him or her to want to change.

Psalm 1:2,3 speaks of the godly man and says, "But his delight and desire are in the

God desires that all men would come to saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, and through Him come to know Him personally and intimately.

God desires that we become like Jesus in all of our ways, working with the Holy Spirit toward spiritual maturity and godly character.

We should want Him more than anything. If we seek Him first, then all other things will be added to our lives.