Quotes about Desire

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Women been gittin' pregnant ever since Eve ate that apple.

I believe that there lives a burning desire in the most sequestered private heart of every American, a desire to belong to a great country. I believe that every citizen wants to stand on the world stage and represent a noble country where the mighty do not always crush the weak and the dream of a democracy is not the sole possession of the strong.

I had no heart nor art to drag him back to the reeking reality of our life and times.

If you could have anything you wanted and it wouldn't be bad or wrong, what would that be? So

In an ideal world, both parties would desire to uphold the Constitution.

A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants.

God made our souls to long for Him, and we are not fully satisfied without His presence in our lives.

We were created to be full. When we're not filled with the good things Christ came to bring us, we will grasp at anything as a substitute. An unsatisfied soul is an accident waiting to happen.

Every human being longs for unfailing love. Lavish love. Focused love. Radical love. Love we can count on.

I don't believe God allows surrendered hearts to continue to long for things He will not ultimately grant in one way or another. Our disappointment with God is often the result of our small thinking.

I looked at his hand, my insides wrenched and wrestling with wanting and not wanting to hold it. I'd held the dying hands of perfect strangers. But only strangers are perfect. It's the known ones that muddle.