Quotes about Desire
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
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