Quotes about Desire
God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.
— John of the Cross
No person, possession, profession, or position ever fills the cup of a wounded, empty heart. It's an emptiness only God can fill.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Beware of begging God for things you don't have to have.
— James MacDonald
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