Quotes about Desire
What the heart loves, the will chooses, and the mind justifies.
— Thomas Cranmer
Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?
— St. Augustine
You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.
— Charles Spurgeon
A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
— Catherine of Siena
Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.
— WP Kinsella
I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.
— George W. Bush
I was brought up in a religion by which I was always taught to renounce the devil; but should I comply with your desire, and go to Mass, I should be sure to meet him there in a variety of shapes.
— John Foxe
We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.
— St. Augustine
The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.
— Shane Claiborne
Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.
— Mark Twain
God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.
— John of the Cross
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is more delightful than wine.
— Song of Solomon 1:2