Quotes about Desire

I long with intense desire to move on and finish my work, I have also an excessive wish to find anything that may exist proving the visit of the great Moses and the ancient kingdom of Tirhaka, but I pray give me just what pleases Thee my Lord, and make me submissive to Thy will in all things.

I had a strong presentiment during the first three years that I should never live through the enterprise, but it weakened as I came near to the end of the journey, and an eager desire to discover any evidence of the great Moses having visited these parts bound me, spell-bound me, I may say, for if I could bring to light anything to confirm the Sacred Oracles, I should not grudge one whit all the labour expended.

Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is giving up one's will to God in deep humility.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.

Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God.

Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent.

If we make God our heart's delight, we shall have our heart's desire.

May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.

The question is not, "Do you want to go to heaven?" The question is, "Do you want God?"

May the passion to be all that God wants you to be sweep across your soul like a gentle breeze.

At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.