Quotes about Desire
Prayer, at its most basic level, was surrender. Like Jesus in the garden, saying, "Not My will, but Yours, be done." The ironic thing was, when a person surrendered their will, they got God's, and then they received what they were really looking for all along. This was what she believed.
— Chris Fabry
O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary." (Psalms 63: 1-2)
— Chris Oyakhilome
Live the life you've dreamed.
— Henry David Thoreau
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
— Henry David Thoreau
But if you find yourself experiencing a desire to seek God, we have great news for you: God is already at work in you.
— Henry Blackaby
The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.
— Henry Ward Beecher
God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
— Henry Ward Beecher
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I have no idea where I am going. . . . But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
— Leonard Sweet
Book of Life says, "Where your heart is, there your treasure is also."
— Les Brown