Quotes about Desire

What God made us to desire, and therefore what we do desire if we admit it, is exactly what he promises to those who follow Jesus Christ: a resurrected life in a resurrected body, with the resurrected Christ on a resurrected Earth.

The lustful man walks with a noose around his neck.

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God cannot give us happiness apart from Himself, because there is no such thing." —C. S. Lewis

When God brings us to salvation, the most remarkable thing we see is that he transforms our hungers. He changes not just what we do but what we want to do. This is the work of the Holy Spirit within us — "for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose" (Philippians 2:13).

His first step is to make temptation appear as a natural desire. It is something unequivocally physical and human.

Many pray for the right partner but cease to pray for the right union--that they be one as Jesus and the Father are one and so experience the full measure of His joy in the relationship.

To allow God to be God we must follow him for who he is and what he intends, and not for what we want or what we prefer.

We see through a glass darkly because all we want is to be comfortable.

How can an object that wants nothing, fears nothing, enjoys nothing, needs nothing, and cares about nothing have a mind?

pleasure brings no lasting fulfillment.

Pleasure that profanes is pleasure that destroys.