Quotes about Desires

All the powers of soul and body,memory, understanding, and will, interior and exterior senses, thedesires of spirit and of sense, all workin and by love.

The things we love tell us who we are.

Till you have savingly believed in Christ, all your desires, and pains, and prayers lay God under no obligation;

If you wish to make Pythocles wealthy, don't give him more money; rather, reduce his desires.

If you want to make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

When the confusion of accusations and excuses, of desires and fears, makes everything with us so obscure, he sees quite clearly into all our secrets. And at the heart of them all he finds a name which he himself has inscribed: Jesus Christ.

Dreams don't often come true, do they? Wouldn't it be nice if they did?

Gracious heavenly Father, I thank Thee for the White Way of Delight and the Lake of Shining Waters and Bonny and the Snow Queen. I'm really extremely grateful for them. And that's all the blessings I can think of just now to thank Thee for. As for the things I want, they're so numerous that it would take a great deal of time to name them all so I will only mention the two most important. Please let me stay at Green Gables; and please let me be good-looking when I grow up.

every personal or behavioral problem one might wish to change (for example, bad temper, perverted sexual desires, depression, anxiety, overeating) results ultimately from violations of the command to love.

A longing for things material is an instrument by which one may approach the love of God; even through coarse desires one may come to love the Creator.

It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.

She learned a long time ago people were driven by what they thought about the most. Whatever surfaced each morning when they opened their eyes ruled their hearts. Good. Evil. Love. Hate. Benevolence. Sex. Greed.