Quotes about Desire

I need God more than anything I might get from God.

Vengeance is a passion to get even. It is a hot desire to give back as much pain as someone gave you. . . . The problem with revenge is that it never gets what it wants; it never evens the score. Fairness never comes.

Nature teaches me nothing about Incarnation or the Victorious Christian Life. It does, though, awaken my desire to meet whoever is responsible for the monarch butterfly.

The Bible's many fierce passages on sin appear in a new light once I understand God's desire to press me toward repentance, the doorway to grace.

Strategy 1—Against Your Passion He seeks to dim your whole desire for prayer, dull your interest in spiritual things, and downplay the potency of your most strategic weapons (Eph. 6:10—20). Strategy 2—Against Your Focus He disguises himself and manipulates your perspective so you end up focusing on the wrong culprit, directing your weapons at the wrong enemy (2 Cor. 11:14). Strategy 3—Against Your Identity

battle going on and, as Galatians 5:16 and 25 says, "Walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh," and "If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.

Strategy 1—Against Your Passion He seeks to dim your whole desire for prayer, dull your interest in spiritual things, and downplay the potency of your most strategic weapons (Eph. 6:10—20).

But often the greatest miracle God can perform for you is right in your own heart. The Bible says to "delight yourself in the Lord; and He will give you the desires of your heart" (Ps. 37:4).

Maybe it's just the accumulated stress and strain from a long season of steady struggle. Or maybe you aren't overwhelmed at all. More like underwhelmed—bored with the sameness and mundaneness of a life you thought would be filled with so much more adventure. The predictability, the pointlessness. Urgh. You so desperately want a change, or at least a little excitement along the way.

When we are in the grip of lust, the reality of God fades.

Human beings want to be happy, and they have a right to want to be. Far from being a selfish or ignoble goal, this is one of the distinguishing features of human beings. To the extent that animals can be said to want anything, what they want is to avoid pain and to be sated, but not to be happy.

When people think or write about happiness, self-control is rarely stressed. … Yet happiness is impossible without self-control. In fact, everything we want is impossible without self-control. Ask anyone who has achieved what you particularly desire to achieve, and you will find a profoundly self-disciplined individual.