Quotes about Desire
Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.
— Aristotle
Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!
— Dorothy Day
God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely.
— Anselm of Canterbury
Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph. Prayer is life striving, toiling everywhere and everywhen for that ultimate victory.
— G Campbell Morgan
Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
— Teresa of Avila
God answers the prayer we ought to have made rather than the prayer we did make.
— JI Packer
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
— St. Augustine
Most Christians expect little from God, ask little, and therefore receive little and are content with little.
— AW Pink
What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds.
— Mary Baker Eddy