Quotes about Desire
There's a deep desire among Christian women to serve God, heart and soul, with their Christian brothers. Yet, in the church--even in some of the best situations--male/female realtionships are the source of some of our biggest hurts, conflicts, misunderstandings, and tensions on both sides.
— Carolyn Custis James
There are two things men have never been able to satisfy: their curiosity and their greed.
— George Lucas
I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.
— George W. Bush
At the end of what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
— Graham Greene
What makes life dreary is want of motive.
— George Eliot
To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.
— Oscar Wilde
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
— George Eliot
Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which, if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy. His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied the man.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Many pray with their lips for that for which their hearts have no desire.
— Jonathan Edwards
Many words do not a good prayer make; what counts is the heartfelt desire to commune with God, and the faith to back it up.
— Anonymous
Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy. His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling that desire.
— Epictetus