Quotes about Desire
God is love. He didn't need us. But he wanted us.
- Rick Warren
In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.
- CS Lewis
Our joy ends where love of the world begins.
- Charles Spurgeon
You know how it feels when you're in love with somebody and you long to be with that person? God wants us to feel that way about Him.
- Stormie Omartian
We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.
- Graham Greene
Love God, and do what you like.
- St. Augustine
In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. Because as long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching. I love what I do.
- Max Lucado
Lust is the devil's counterfeit for love. There is nothing more beautiful on earth than a pure love and there is nothing so blighting as lust.
- DL Moody
Being in love doesn't mean loving.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky