Quotes about Desire
The only thing harder than waiting on God, is wishing that you had!
- Steven Furtick
When you have become God's in the measure he desires, then he himself will bestow you upon others; unless, to your greater glory, he chooses to keep you all to himself.
- St. Basil
Doesn't every encounter with God only cause us to thirst for Him more?
- Francis Chan
You are probably at your sanest when you come to the place where you abandon all else but your desire for God.
- RT Kendall
Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God's idea of what He wants to do for me.
- Oswald Chambers
Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.
- Samuel Rutherford
God takes men's hearty desires and will, instead of the deed, where they have not power to fulfill it; but he never took the bare deed instead of the will.
- Richard Baxter
We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.
- AW Tozer
I am discontented because I have not these things which God never yet promised me, and therefore I sin much against the Gospel, and against the grace of faith.
- Jeremiah Burroughs
Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
- George Eliot
Our desire for approval can only truly be met by receiving God's acceptance and approval of us.
- Joyce Meyer
Whatever is your greatest joy and treasure, that is your god.
- Charles Spurgeon