Quotes about Desire

We can get excited by thinking about what all we have or can have, OR we can get discouraged by thinking about what all we don't have.

Many people want guidance from God, but they don't want to lay aside other things in order to hear His voice. But David narrowed down everything he wanted to just one thing—more of God all the days of his life. I believe the only thing that truly satisfies the longing within us is to know God more intimately today than we did yesterday.

People cannot change people. Only God can get inside a person's heart and cause him or her to want to change.

Psalm 1:2,3 speaks of the godly man and says, "But his delight and desire are in the

God desires that all men would come to saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, and through Him come to know Him personally and intimately.

God desires that we become like Jesus in all of our ways, working with the Holy Spirit toward spiritual maturity and godly character.

We should want Him more than anything. If we seek Him first, then all other things will be added to our lives.

We need to be enthusiastic! Too many of us walk around with long faces looking and feeling worn-out. But the human heart was made for passion, for strong desire to reach for something beyond ourselves.

But his delight and desire are in the law of the Lord, and on His law (the precepts, the instructions, the teachings of God) he habitually meditates (ponders and studies) by day and by night. Psalm 1:1,2

Concentrating on the evil things you are doing will never help you do the good things that you desire to do.

Be content with what you have, refuse to focus on what you don't have; love others; and stay hopeful concerning what you want and need.

Where the mind goes the person follows, so be sure that your thoughts are on what you want rather than what you don't want.