Quotes about Desire
We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.
- Philip Yancey
the promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.
- Philip Yancey
only love can summon a response of love, which is the one thing God wants from us and the reason he created us.
- Philip Yancey
We have not, it seems, the power to abstain from worship. Instead, we swallow the sweet poison, substituting lesser gods for God.
- Philip Yancey
The deepest longings we feel on earth, as parents, as lovers, are mere flickers of the hungering desire God feels for us. It is a desire that cost him the Incarnation and the Crucifixion.
- Philip Yancey
Augustine's Confessions...What it is, therefore, he begins, that goes on within the soul, since it takes greater delight if things that it loves are found or restored to it than if it had always possessed them?
- Philip Yancey
Because of Jesus we need never question God's desire for intimacy. Does God really want close contact with us? Jesus gave up Heaven for it.
- Philip Yancey
Although we all have the capacity, our spiritual longing will remain unfulfilled until we make contact, and then develop the skills of spiritual "correspondence.
- Philip Yancey
Novelist Reynolds Price said there is one sentence all humankind craves to hear: "The Maker of all things loves and wants me.
- Philip Yancey
The novelist Reynolds Price says there is one sentence above all that people crave from stories: The Maker of all things loves and wants me. Christians still believe in that truth.
- Philip Yancey
I do "good works" for my wife not in order to earn credit but to express my love for her. Likewise, God wants me to serve "in the new way of the Spirit": not out of compulsion but out of desire.
- Philip Yancey
And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes possible the very closeness that we desire.
- Philip Yancey