Quotes about Desire

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them — a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.

Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.

We have lived for too long in a world, and tragically in a Church, where the wills and affections of human beings are regarded as sacrosanct as they stand, where God is required to command what we already love, and to promise what we already desire.

There are temptations to idolatry at every level, and the greater the good the greater the temptation.

Cornelius didn't want God (or Peter) to tolerate him. He wanted to be welcomed, forgiven, healed, transformed. And he was.

a hermeneutics of suspicion is radically reductionistic. It simply abandons the question of truth, reducing it to questions of power and desire.

We tend to have a limited concept of spiritual death as saying no only to things we want or covet -- our guilty pleasures and selfish ambitions. But in reality, it means dying inwardly to whatever has control over us. The thing that really controls us may not be what we want. It may be what we fear. Fear can dominate our lives just as strongly as desire.

We sin because we want something in the created world more than we want the Creator.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.