Quotes about Desire

The true dimensions of a soul are seen in its delights. Not what we dutifully will but what we passionately want reveals our excellence or evil.

If you are like me, you may have strong longings from time to time for the mighty working of the holy Spirit in your life...But what I have found most often in my own life is the failure to open myself to the full measure of the Spirit's work by believing the promises of God.

We make a god out of whatever we find most joy in. So, find your joy in God and be done with all idolatry."-John Piper

By nature, we get more pleasure from God's gifts then from Himself.

The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.

You made us for yourself and our hearts find no peace till they rest in you.

Even in the miserable guilt we feel over our beastlike insensitivity, the glory of God shines. If God were not gloriously desirable, why would we feel sorrowful for not feasting fully on His beauty?

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." Desiring God, 12.

Anxiety seems to be an intense desire for something, accompanied by a fear of the consequences of not receiving it.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

People give way to sexual sin because they don't have fullness of joy and gladness in Jesus.

God will be glorified both by the intensity of the present delight that we have in his beauty and by the intensity of the desires we have for more revelation of his fullness.