Quotes about Desire

We are qualified for Christian service by our praying not our preaching, by our desire to worship him and not our workload on his behalf, by knowing Jesus personally and not just by knowing a lot of interesting things about him. If you lose God's presence you lose everything, but if you know his presence you already have everything you will ever need.

So I'm waiting for God, and God is waiting for me to see if I am really waiting for him, and not just wanting things from him.

Augustine once said that God puts salt on our lips that we may thirst for him. Sometimes it's the salt of our tears.

America does not know the difference between money and sex. It treats sex like money because it treats sex as a medium of exchange, and it treats money like sex because it expects its money to get pregnant and reproduce.

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.

To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.

But Sarai was barren; she had no children.

Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.

Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, O my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.

Finally Jacob said to Laban, “Grant me my wife, for my time is complete, and I want to sleep with her.”