Quotes about Desire
“Short time or long,” Paul replied, “I wish to God that not only you but all who hear me this day may become what I am, except for these chains.”
— Acts 26:29
For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.
— Romans 7:5
But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
— Romans 7:8
I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.
— Romans 7:15
And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good.
— Romans 7:16
I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
— Romans 7:18
For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do.
— Romans 7:19
And if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
— Romans 7:20
For in this hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he can already see?
— Romans 8:24
So then, it does not depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.
— Romans 9:16
Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is for their salvation.
— Romans 10:1
But now that there are no further opportunities for me in these regions, and since I have longed for many years to visit you,
— Romans 15:23