Quotes about Desire
The biggest enemy to prayer is praying for something you already have.
— Bill Johnson
Let this be thy whole endeavor, this thy prayer, this thy desire,-that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus only.
— Thomas a Kempis
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
— Teresa of Avila
In souls filled with love, the desire to please God is continual prayer.
— John Wesley
People will give themselves to prayer for numerous reasons, but at the core of it all is a God, raging with zealous desire.
— Mike Bickle
O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.
— St. Augustine
Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things.
— John Wesley
Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.
— Amy Carmichael
Consistent prayer is the desire to do right.
— Mary Baker Eddy
In my prayers I never said I needed a home. I said I wanted a sanctuary.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.
— Oswald Chambers
If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.
— Herman Melville