Quotes about Desires

Most counseling cases today involve good desires that have become overgrown. In these cases most relevant passages of Scripture may not be those that rebut particular manifestations of sin, but those that remind us to love God with all our hearts.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want.

Men think all things would be very glorious if they might be done according to their mind. Perhaps, indeed, they would-but with their glory, not the glory of God.

World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.

For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.

If you have a great many desires, you will gradually eliminate them one by one, until you allow certain desires to dominate and the others to die away.

The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.

Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity.

Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.

We must consult our means rather than our wishes.

Grant that the voice of our own desires may not be speaking so insistently that we become deaf to your word.