Quotes about Desire
Process produces happiness, "the object and design of our existence." Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
— Stephen Covey
God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of otherness.
— David Bentley Hart
The world today is hungry Not only for bread But hungry for love; Hungry to be wanted, Hungry to be loved.
— Mother Teresa
When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.
— Oscar Wilde
My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love.
— Samuel Rutherford
Love can wait to give; it is lust that can't wait to get.
— Josh McDowell
Married love burns as fire, and seeks nothing more than the mate. It says, "I want only you"
— Martin Luther
God is love. He didn't need us. But he wanted us.
— Rick Warren
In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.
— CS Lewis
Our joy ends where love of the world begins.
— Charles Spurgeon
You know how it feels when you're in love with somebody and you long to be with that person? God wants us to feel that way about Him.
— Stormie Omartian
We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen