Quotes about Desires
The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.
— Epictetus
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.
— Joseph Addison
Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.
— Alexander Hamilton
We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
— George Washington
Grant that the voice of our own desires may not be speaking so insistently that we become deaf to your word.
— William Barclay
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
— William Hazlitt
Now the Holiness of the common Christian is not an occasional Thing, that begins and ends, or is only for such a Time, or Place, or Action, but is the Holiness of that, which is always alive and stirring in us, namely, of our Thoughts, Wills, Desires, and Affections.
— William Law
Man's will is free to follow his inclinations, but fallen man's inclinations are always and invariably away from God.
— RC Sproul
What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'
— CS Lewis
Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God
— Elyse Fitzpatrick
When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.
— Joyce Meyer
Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God.
— Francis Chan