Quotes about Desire
'To die is gain!' That kind of talk is absolutely foreign to our modern, spiritual vocabularies. We have become such life worshippers, we have very little desire to depart to be with the Lord.
— David Wilkerson
Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.
— Khalil Gibran
Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.
— John of the Cross
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Christ is the meat, the bread, the food of our souls. Nothing is in him of a higher spiritual nourishment than his love, which we should always desire.
— John Owen
All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
— Khalil Gibran
Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.
— Oswald Chambers
The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does his present life become to him; because he sees more clearly and perceives more sensibly the defects of human corruption.
— Thomas a Kempis
By God's design, he has wired his children for spiritual reproduction. He has woven into the fabric of every single Christian's DNA a desire and ability to reproduce.
— David Platt
It has been my observation that whatever a person hungers for, Satan will appear to offer in exchange for a spiritual compromise.
— James Dobson
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
— Albert Einstein
Anger is the only negative emotion that people all over the world usually want to keep.
— Albert Ellis