Quotes about Desire

That is why one of Rich's most powerful songs, and one he enjoyed singing in concert more than any other, is "Greed.

When we ask people what they want in church instead of giving them what they were created to long for, we play in the very idolatry that church was created to dismantle.

Sin does not remain a contented servant; it seeks to seize and master its participants.

More of anything other than God will never fill that longing for fulfillment He has placed within you and me.

With God, we can be satisfied and fulfilled with very little, but without Him, all that we have will always be dry and deeply disappointing.

For life change to happen, we must commit to full cooperation with God's desire to transform us.

Without a complete view of sin, people can burn out in their pursuit of pleasure.

Many pastors would rather preach God's Word and keep their distance than invest in a personal one-on-one counseling ministry. Most pastors counsel because they have to, not because they want to.

One of the consequences of covetousness is that it destroys the capacity to discern sufficiency. It distorts our thinking to the point where: Enough is never enough.

What you hope for determines what you live for. What you hope for determines WHO you live for. Hope misplaced can devastate you.

To know God as he is, is to love him as he is and to want to be like him.

In election and "irresistible" grace God does not disregard or act contrary to the will of any man or woman, as implied above. Rather, He regenerates the individual, as the result of which a will is born that now desires what the old will previously despised. Before, George hated Christ. Now he loves Him and so comes willingly when the gospel is preached. Again, if Mary desires to come, it is not in spite of God's predetermination in her case but because of it.