Quotes about Desire
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
He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.
— Joyce Meyer
We have become so self-centered that we go to God only for something from Him, and not for God Himself.
— Oswald Chambers
Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him.
— Brother Lawrence
All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God.
— Hannah More
Faith means wanting God and wanting to want nothing else.
— Brennan Manning
You'll find another.' God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
You know, it is not God's desire to conceal but to reveal. The word revelation means "unveiling."
— Greg Laurie