Quotes about Desire
Many people turn to alcohol to try to drown the [cries] and longings of the soul. Others attempt to quiet the longings of their souls in other ways. Nothing but God ever completely satisfies, because the soul is made for God.
— Billy Graham
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. 1 JOHN 2:15
— Billy Graham
People are little creatures with big capacities, finite beings with infinite desires, deserving nothing but demanding all. God made people with this huge capacity and desire in order that He might come in and completely satisfy that desire.
— Billy Graham
Too many times we are concerned with how much, instead of how little, like this [world] we can become.
— Billy Graham
Ask God to give you a greater hunger for Himself and a deeper desire for His fellowship. Then be honest about whatever is keeping you from prayer, and ask God to help you deal with it.
— Billy Graham
The more worldly pleasure we enjoy, the less satisfied and contented we are with life.
— Billy Graham
Envy and greed always—always—exact a terrible price. I have never met an envious or greedy person who was at peace.
— Billy Graham
Many of us have no appetite for spiritual things because we are absorbed in the sinful pleasures of this world. We have been eating too many of the devil's delicacies.
— Billy Graham
One can approach the Bible with a cold, rationalistic attitude, or one can do so with reverence and the desire to hear God speak.
— Billy Graham
It is not wrong to want to work and earn a decent living; in fact, God has given work to us. But this legitimate desire can very easily cross the line into greed—especially in our materialistic society.
— Billy Graham
Greed is an unreasonable or all-absorbing desire to acquire things or wealth. One test of greed is that it is never satisfied. Greed is repeatedly condemned in the Bible.
— Billy Graham
There are two ways of being rich—have a lot, or want very little. The latter way is the easier for most.
— Billy Graham