Quotes about Desires

It is a safe thing to trust Him to fulfill the desires which He creates.

Place your desires before God. Pray about them and trust God to give them to you if and when they're right for you.

Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.

God loves us too much to indulge our every whim.

May your convictions be deep, your love real, and your desires earnest

In 1900 the average person living in the United States wanted seventy-two different things and considered eighteen of them essential. Today the average person wants five hundred things and considers one hundred of them essential.

Often when God does not readily give us what we want, it is because He knows what our desire would cost us. Faith sometimes means forgoing our desires because we trust Christ to have a better plan for our lives.

Five obstacles block our access to the benefits God wants for us: Unbelief, which hinders knowing God Pride, which prevents us from glorifying God Idolatry, which keeps us from being satisfied with God Prayerlessness, which blocks our experience of God's peace Legalism, which stops our enjoyment of God's presence

When you need to set boundaries . . . They are the kind [of people] who work their way into people's homes and win the confidence of vulnerable women who are burdened with the guilt of sin and controlled by various desires. 2 TIMOTHY 3:6

We resist offering ourselves wholly to anyone or anything that has the potential to encroach on our personal desires, and Jesus made clear from the start that God's will and ours would be in conflict at times. Yet our surrender to Jesus is also ultimately our surrender to joy.

Why do you spend money on what is not food, and your wages on what does not satisfy? Isaiah 55:2

We can easily be led into captivity by seeking other answers to needs and desires that only God can meet.