Quotes about Desire
Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind".
- Billy Graham
God is a kooky God who can scarcely bear to be without us.
- Brennan Manning
When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.
- Charles Spurgeon
In Heaven the good God will do all I wish, because I have never done my own will upon earth.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.
- St. Augustine
I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.
- George W. Bush
Every sin flows from the failure to treasure the glory of God above all things.
- John Piper
If you delight more in God's gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this you must never do.
- Charles Spurgeon
Am I honest? Am I sincere? Do I really desire first the praise of God?
- JC Ryle
Sin is what you do when you are not satisfied in God.
- John Piper
In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).
- John Piper
The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.
- RC Sproul