Quotes about Desire
What kind of deal is it to get everything you want but lose yourself? What could you ever trade your soul for?
- Eugene Peterson
When you grab all you can get, that's what happens: the more you get, the less you are.
- Eugene Peterson
What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.
- Euripides
Would that I were under the cliffs, in the secrethiding-places of the rocks,that Zeus might change me to a winged bird.
- Euripides
Best not to tiptoe around what you're yearning for, eyeing it, longing for it . . . or you'll miss your life ahead, it read.
- Beverly Lewis
Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have.
- Beverly Lewis
Hope deferred makes the heart sick." It's not a promise but a warning. Desire realized is a tree of life, and the tree of life is only found in Genesis, Proverbs and Revelation. Genesis is what was, Proverbs is what is, and Revelation is what will be.
- Bill Johnson
Thankfulness and hunger create the atmosphere for increase.
- Bill Johnson
Having a renewed mind is often not an issue of whether or not someone is going to heaven, but of how much of heaven he or she wants in his or her life right now. Jesus urged us to do an about-face in our
- Bill Johnson
One of the most priceless parts of our human life is the area called desire. It is a God-given gift that separates us from all the rest of creation.
- Bill Johnson
The anointing to heal and bring deliverance will be of no value in Heaven. These graces must be used here and now as part of the package of tools used to bring the nations to Jesus. After all, He is called "the desire of the nations."Everyone desires Jesus. They just don't know it. We must become like Him more fully so that the harvest becomes all that God desires and has provided for.
- Bill Johnson
God desires to release gifts to us more than we desire to receive them. He is just too merciful to release gifts upon us that He would have to judge us for later because we failed to carry them with integrity.
- Bill Johnson