Quotes about Desire
I took you to an intimate restaurant, then to a suggestive movie. There's nothing left to talk about, unless it's horizontally.
— Olivia Newton-John
Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death.
— CS Lewis
I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.
— Graham Greene
We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.
— Philip Yancey
the promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.
— Philip Yancey
only love can summon a response of love, which is the one thing God wants from us and the reason he created us.
— Philip Yancey
We have not, it seems, the power to abstain from worship. Instead, we swallow the sweet poison, substituting lesser gods for God.
— Philip Yancey
The deepest longings we feel on earth, as parents, as lovers, are mere flickers of the hungering desire God feels for us. It is a desire that cost him the Incarnation and the Crucifixion.
— Philip Yancey
Augustine's Confessions...What it is, therefore, he begins, that goes on within the soul, since it takes greater delight if things that it loves are found or restored to it than if it had always possessed them?
— Philip Yancey
Because of Jesus we need never question God's desire for intimacy. Does God really want close contact with us? Jesus gave up Heaven for it.
— Philip Yancey
Although we all have the capacity, our spiritual longing will remain unfulfilled until we make contact, and then develop the skills of spiritual "correspondence.
— Philip Yancey