Quotes about Desires
Proverbs says, "A man may plan his ways, but God directs his steps." God is going to give you the right desires, at the right time, and lead you into the best path for your life.
- Joel Osteen
To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.
- Dallas Willard
God's wealth circulates in my life, it flows to me in avalanches of abundance. All my needs, desires and goals are met instantaneously, for I am one with God and he is everything!
- Tony Robbins
If wishes and buts were clusters of nuts, we'd all have a bowl of granola.
- Anonymous
Better to live alone; with a fool there is no companionship. With few desires live alone and do no evil, like an elephant in the forest roaming at will.
- Anonymous
Dost thou, therefore, in the name of this Child, renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world, with all covetous desires of the same, and the sinful desires of the flesh, so that thou wilt not follow, nor be led by them?
- Anonymous
Much of everyday life is filled with opportunities to be distracted. Our possessions... entertainment... cares and anxieties... and even the passionate desire and pursuit of things, some good and not so good, can keep our minds and hearts caught up in a flurry of activity.
- Joyce Meyer
How can intemperate minds be free when they're slaves to their own passions?
- Francine Rivers
These conquerors of the world are slaves to their passions, and someday their passions will bring them down.
- Francine Rivers
Create or arouse such unbridled forces and you built carnal fantasies of enormous complexity. You could lead whole populations around by their desires, by their fantasy projections.
- Frank Herbert
If wishes were fishes we'd all cast nets.
- Frank Herbert
give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
- Frank Lloyd Wright