Quotes about Desires

Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.

Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want

Praying with a lustful heart. "You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures" (James 4:3). God isn't fooled by prayers that are more about how we can fulfill our sinful desires than how we can honor Him and fulfill His purposes.

When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself.

The love of Christ reaches to the very depths of earthly misery and woe, or it would not meet the case of the veriest sinner. It also reaches to the throne of the eternal, or man could not he lifted from his degraded condition, and our necessities would not be met, our desires would be unsatisfied.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

Let death surprise rue when it will, and where it will, I may be a happy man, nevertheless. For he is a happy man, who in his lifetime dealeth unto himself a happy lot and portion. A happy lot and portion is, good inclinations of the soul, good desires, good actions.

As the senses naturally belong to the body, and the desires and affections to the soul, so do the dogmata to the understanding.

I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are (p. 331).

Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life.

A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.

Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing buy rational actions.