Quotes about Desire
If God does not have our highest allegiance, we will use prayer to try to get things that have that designation.
— Timothy Keller
People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.
— William Faulkner
Unhappiness on earth cultivates a hunger for heaven. By gracing us with a deep dissatisfaction, God holds our attention.
— Max Lucado
If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.
— Oscar Wilde
The resources of heaven are ready and waiting for the people of God who desire to make much of him in this world
— David Platt
Who God is and what Christ did have huge implications for who we are personally and what we desire sexually.
— David Platt
The young among us are, as a general thing, allied to the world. But few maintain a special warfare against the internal foe. But few have an earnest, anxious desire to know and do the will of God.
— Ellen White
We all wanted what we wanted, and when the Lord fulfilled HIS purpose rather than ours, we struck out against him. In anger. In disappointment. Yet, it is God's will that prevails.
— Francine Rivers
God aims to look valuable in the world, and that happens when we treasure him above all else.
— John Piper
Pastors and missionaries (need) to know God and to find in him a Treasure more satisfying than any other person or thing or relationship or experience or accomplishment in the world.
— John Piper
Anything less then God, ever me wanteth.
— Julian of Norwich
All who call on God in true faith earnestly from the heart will certainly be heard and will receive what they have asked and desired.
— Martin Luther