Quotes about Desires

There is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires—if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical?

A wife had greater wants, naturally, and could do nothing to help her own situation.

Satisfied needs do not motivate.

Coherence suggests that there is harmony, unity, and integrity between your vision and mission, your roles and goals, your priorities and plans, and your desires and discipline.

There hath not one tear dropped from thy tender eye against thy lusts, the love of this world, or for more communion with Jesus Christ, but as it is now in the bottle of God.

As you spend time in God's Word and understand his love, the Holy Spirit will create new desires within you to love and serve others like never before.

Love properly understood is God—the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love.

There is no surer evidence of an unconverted state than to have the things of the world uppermost in our aim, love, and estimation.

Music religious heat inspires / It wakes the soul, and lifts it high / And wings it with sublime desires / And fits it to bespeak the Deity.

The cultivation of consumer spirituality is the antithesis of a sacrificial, "deny yourself" congregation.

What good would it do to get everything you want and lose you, the real you? What could you ever trade your soul for? "If any of you are embarrassed over me and the way I'm leading you when you get around your fickle and unfocused friends, know that you'll be an even greater embarrassment to the Son of Man when he arrives in all the splendor of God, his Father, with an army of the holy angels.

There is no question that spending time with God changes our desires. We always become like the one we worship. But it's not because we've been programmed to wish for the things He wants us to wish for; it's because in friendship we discover the things that please Him—the secret things of His heart. It is the instinct of the true believer to search for and find, that which brings pleasure to the Father.