Quotes about Desire

What distinguishes all love from lust is the fact that it bears an impress of eternity.

Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love

When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.

Being alive is having what I want, that is my joy, my happiness.

Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, that would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.

Thus the Lord, by pain, sickness, and disappointments, by breaking our cisterns and withering our gourds—weakens our attachment to this world, and makes the thought of leaving it, more easy and more desirable.

Satan transforms himself into an angel of light. He sometimes offers to teach us humility; but though I wish to be humble, I desire not to learn in this school. His premises perhaps are true, that we are vile, wretched creatures—but he then draws abominable conclusions from them; and would teach us, that, therefore, we ought to question either the power, or the willingness, or the faithfulness of Christ.

understood the necessity of religion as a means of escaping hell, but I loved sin and was unwilling to forsake it.

We have no Scriptural evidence that we serve the Lord at all, any farther than we find a habitual desire and aim to serve him wholly. He is gracious to our imperfections and weakness; yet he requires all the heart, and will not be served by halves, nor accept what is performed by a divided heart.

To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.

The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for God is so small.

I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.