Quotes about Desire
We must have a warrant for our prayers. If we have some great desire, we must search the scriptures to find if it be right to ask it.
- DL Moody
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
- Michelangelo
Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real.
- Napoleon Hill
All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.
- Hildegard of Bingen
There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts, we have ever desired anything else.
- CS Lewis
I assure you that it is our desire and intention to keep the doors of consultation always and fully open. There must never be a final word between friends.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Our desire is not only to SEE glory, but to participate in the glory we see.
- CS Lewis
If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.
- CS Lewis
It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.
- St. Augustine
It is a sin when I place myself deliberately in the place of temptation… either because I enjoy the prospect or because I'm not determined enough in my desire to overcome it.
- Alistair Begg
A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated.
- Alphonsus Liguori
If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.
- CS Lewis