Quotes about Desire
My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love.
— Samuel Rutherford
Love can wait to give; it is lust that can't wait to get.
— Josh McDowell
Married love burns as fire, and seeks nothing more than the mate. It says, "I want only you"
— Martin Luther
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