Quotes about Desire
As we face our vulnerability and weakness, there are things you and I should pray for regularly. We should pray for purity of desire, wisdom to recognize the enemy's tricks, and strength to fight the battles we can't avoid.
— Paul David Tripp
There is woven inside each of us a desire for something more—a craving to be part of something bigger, greater, and more profound than our relatively meaningless day-by-day existence.
— Paul David Tripp
An idolatrous heart will produce idol words, words that serve the idol that grips us.
— Paul David Tripp
Envy tempts you to crave what is temporary while you devalue what is eternal. This never leads you anywhere good.
— Paul David Tripp
3. We replace vertical awe with horizontal addiction.
— Paul David Tripp
Living in this present world is designed by God to produce three things in me — longing, readiness, and hope.
— Paul David Tripp
Remember the biblical principle of idolatry, desire for a good thing becomes a bad thing when that desire becomes a ruling thing.
— Paul David Tripp
Sin causes us to want our own way, to want sovereignty over things we weren't designed to control, and to want to coerce others into the service of our agenda.
— Paul David Tripp
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. C. S. LEWIS12
— Paul David Tripp
Sin makes us better fighters than lovers.
— Paul David Tripp
We're all spiritually promiscuous, running from lover to lover, giving the loyalty of our hearts to things other than God.
— Paul David Tripp
Your heart will never be satisfied in things. No, your heart will be satisfied only in the Giver of the things. If you seek happiness, happiness will elude you.
— Paul David Tripp