Quotes about Desire
Never regret anything, because at one time it was exactly what you wanted.
- Marilyn Monroe
Joy is not getting what you want; it's appreciating what you have.
- Mark Batterson
If you aren't hungry for God, you are full of yourself. That's why God cannot fill you with His Spirit. But if you will empty yourself, if you will die to self, you'll be a different person by the time you reach the last page of this book.
- Mark Batterson
Most of us don't get what we want because we don't know what we want. Here's our secondary problem: Most of us don't get what we want because we quit circling.
- Mark Batterson
We want everything God has to offer without giving anything up.
- Mark Batterson
We all want to spend eternity with God. We just don't want to spend time with Him.
- Mark Batterson
until His sovereign will becomes your sanctified wish, your prayer life will be unplugged from its power supply.
- Mark Batterson
If my words don't flow out of a heart that rests in God's control, sovereignty, then they come out of the heart that seeks control so I can get what I want.
- Mark Driscoll
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
- Mark Twain
It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!
- Mark Twain
Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
- Mark Twain
Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.
- Mark Twain