Quotes about Desire
I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
— St. Augustine
In order to profit from this path [of prayer] and ascend to the dwelling places we desire, the important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so, do that which best stirs you to love.
— Teresa of Avila
For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.
— Thomas Merton
When I fall in love I'm obsessed.
— Isabel Allende
In the vacuum of the heart love falls forever.
— John Updike
My love is my weight. Because of it, I move.
— St. Augustine
The sinful nature is all about self: pleasing self, promoting self, preserving self. Sin is selfish.
— Max Lucado
The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out—but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity. [ 1 John 2:17 MSG
— Max Lucado
The snake pulled back the curtain to the throne room and invited Eve to take a seat. Put on the crown. Pick up the scepter. Put on the cape. See how it feels to have power. See how feels to have a name. See how it feels to be in control! Eve swallowed the hook. The temptation to be like God eclipsed her view of God.
— Max Lucado
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
— Max Lucado
WHEN OUR DEEPEST DESIRE IS NOT THE THINGS OF GOD, OR A FAVOR FROM GOD, BUT GOD HIMSELF, WE CROSS A THRESHOLD.
— Max Lucado