Quotes about Desire
I must teach you to long for something better...For my uncontrollable longings for this man, Lord --- Your strength.
— Elisabeth Elliot
And ah for a man to arise in me,That the man I am may cease to be!
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.
— Alice Hoffman
Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.
— Alice Walker
Learning to be content with what we have is a safeguard against the temptation to break the previous nine commands.
— Alistair Begg
Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth. It is a matter of desire, diligence and determination to see one's family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters.
— Ezra Taft Benson
At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If we are hungry enough for God, we will find a way into His presence. We should be so hungry for the presence of God that we absolutely will not go out of our house or tackle any kind of project until we have spent some time with Him.
— Joyce Meyer
It is not the ability to walk that pleases God, it is the desire to walk. The desire to do the right thing. The truest measure of a man is what he desires. The measure of that desire is seen in the actions that follow.
— Richard Paul Evans
To truly live is more than taking the next breath---it's to hope and dream and love.
— Richard Paul Evans