Quotes about Desire
The Jesus that men want to see is not the Jesus they really need to see.
- G Campbell Morgan
Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life.
- Sadhu Sundar Singh
There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants.
- E Stanley Jones
Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.
- James Allen
It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!
- Mark Twain
O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without Thee, it would be hell; and if I could be in hell, and have Thee still, it would be heaven to me, for Thou are all the heaven I want.
- Samuel Rutherford
Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.
- Kathleen Norris
Those who seek the deeper Christian life and those who want the riches that are in Christ Jesus the Lord seek no place, no wealth, no things, only Christ.
- AW Tozer
Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.
- Peter Marshall
There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
- Catherine of Siena
Natural man's sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.
- RC Sproul
You may not get what you want, but God always gives you what you need.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross