Quotes about Desire

The world cannot satisfy the heart, because the heart is too large for the object.

My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.

I have no desire to make an idol of holiness. I do not wish to dethrone Christ, and put holiness in His place. But I must candidly say, I wish sanctification was more thought of in this day than it seems to be, and I therefore take occasion to press the subject on all believers into whose hands these pages may fall.

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren land; long heath, broth furze, any thing.

I think when you have big dreams you attract other big dreamers.

If you really desire something, ask and the Universe will conspire to give it to you.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

The source and cause of all temptation is in the inward desire; that being purified or eliminated, outward objects and extraneous powers are utterly powerless to move the soul to sin or to temptation.

As a man purifies his heart, temptation ceases, for when a certain unlawful desire has been taken out of the heart, the object which formerly appealed to it can no longer do so, but becomes dead and powerless, for there is nothing left in the heart that can respond to it.

Be careful what you wish for, dear. God just might move you halfway around the world someday.