Quotes about Desires
You can't keep the second Great Commandment unless you are first keeping the first. Only in bowing before God and submitting to his desires can we really turn to one another in peace and love. Any agenda for change that forgets this vertical causality will prove temporary and cosmetic.
- Paul David Tripp
As parents we need to be rescued from our addiction to the law of our comfort, pleasure, success, and control. It's not our children's sin that is in the way of good parenting; it's our tendency to make parenting about our little kingdom of wants, needs, and desires, and our tendency to want our children to serve the purposes of our kingdom rather than submit to the purposes of God's kingdom.
- Paul David Tripp
What we need most is a heart ruled by the Lord rather than by "evil desires." We need to be progressively freed from our slavery to the god-replacements that imprison us in self-absorbed pursuit of our own glory.
- Paul David Tripp
God's saving grace ignites in the hearts of all his children a radical shift in ambition. Where once our thoughts, desires, words, and actions were motivated and directed by our ambition to achieve our definition of personal happiness, by grace they are now shaped by our ambition for the kingdom of God to achieve all God has designed for it to achieve. Where once we were ambitious for what we want, we now are ambitious to do the will of God.
- Paul David Tripp
if you begin to want things out of ministry and leadership that you shouldn't want, other areas of calling will not receive the attention from you that they need.
- Paul David Tripp
Idolatry occurs when anything created to point you to God replaces God in the thoughts and desires of your heart.
- Paul David Tripp
Here it is. When the enemy somehow tricks you into squeezing the size of your life to the size of your personal dreams, wants, and needs, he has got you right where he wants you.
- Paul David Tripp
If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great. JOHN PIPER9
- Paul David Tripp
Now, O king, come down whenever your soul desires, and we will be responsible for delivering him into your hand.”
- 1 Samuel 23:20
Then Abner said to David, “Let me go at once, and I will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may rule over all that your heart desires.” So David dismissed Abner, and he went in peace.
- 2 Samuel 3:21
But as for you, I will take you, and you shall reign over all that your heart desires, and you will be king over Israel.
- 1 Kings 11:37
But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.
- Job 23:13