Quotes about Desires
If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may be quite aware of that, but if we repress our needs, then those unsaid prayers will fester.
- Madeleine L'Engle
But, like all human beings, she still had unfulfilled longings. She could still be as lonely and frightened as a child, and with as little reason.
- Madeleine L'Engle
We not only learn to say, 'My Father,' but also 'Our Father.' Nothing would be more unnatural than for the children of a family to always meet their father alone but never in the united expression of their desires or their love.
- Andrew Murray
When He made man in His image it was, above all, with the purpose that the desires of man would be in harmony with the desires of God. This is the high honor of being made in the likeness of God—that we are to feel and wish just as God.
- Andrew Murray
They do not realize that the most dangerous source of sin is the love of the world with its lusts and pleasures.
- Andrew Murray
In human flesh man was to be the embodiment and fulfillment of God's desires.
- Andrew Murray
In Jesus all our fears are removed, all our needs supplied, all our desires met. He, the righteous One, is your righteousness; He, the obedient One, is your obedience. Will you not trust Him for this? What faith sees and desires and expects and accepts, surely it will dare trust Christ to give.
- Andrew Murray
I can discover within me no power of perception which is not glutted with its proper pleasure, yet I do not feel myself delighted. Man has surely some latent sense for which this place affords no gratification, or he has some desires distinct from sense which must be satisfied before he can be happy.
- Samuel Johnson
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony.
- Samuel Johnson
Though Satan instills his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements.
- John Calvin
Men in prayer give greater license to their unlawful desires than if they were telling jocular tales among their equals.
- John Calvin
We see how mankind, without well thinking what they are doing, pursue, with impetuous and ardent affections, the transitory things of this world; but, in thus catching at the empty shadow of a happy life, they lose true happiness itself.
- John Calvin