Quotes about Desire
When God has given you your heart's desire, what have you done with your heart's desire?
- Jeremiah Burroughs
May God grant us a desire for God that supersedes all other desires.
- AW Tozer
When we have the Holy Spirit we have all that is needed to be all that God desires us to be.
- AW Tozer
O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace.
- AW Tozer
All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.
- William Law
God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received.
- Johannes Tauler
When our deepest desire is not the things of God, or a favor from God, but God Himself, we cross a threshold.
- Max Lucado
The essence of temptation is the invitation to live independently of God.
- Neil Anderson
To truly know God we must long for Him without any other motive than reaching God Himself.
- AW Tozer
... our natural Will is to have God, and the Good Will of God is to have us; and we may never cease from willing nor from longing till we have Him in fullness of joy: and then may we no more desire.
- Julian of Norwich
Desire for God without doctrine is blind; doctrine without desire is empty.
- Kevin Vanhoozer
Where true inner freedom is, there is God. And where God is, there we want to be.
- Henri Nouwen