Quotes about Desire
I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.
— Joyce Meyer
Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.
— Napoleon Hill
God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us.
— CS Lewis
The only Christian you want to listen to is the one who gives you more of a hunger for God.
— AW Tozer
Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.
— Denzel Washington
God only wants for us what we would want for ourselves if we were smart enough to want it.
— Adrian Rogers
Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.
— Thomas Merton
When your life is changed by Jesus, you are a new creature. God not only changes what you do, He also changes what you want to do.
— Ravi Zacharias
Character isn't developed when we get what we want. Character is developed when we don't get what we want.
— Joyce Meyer
To allow God to be God we must follow Him for who He is and what He intends, and not for what we want and what we prefer.
— Ravi Zacharias
God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?
— CS Lewis
As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.
— AB Simpson