Quotes about Desire

Desire for and delight in God's Word are inseparable.

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

We desire the wrong things, and we desire right things in the wrong way. And both are deadly—like eating pleasant poison.

We should waken to the truth that it is a treacherous sin not to pursue our fullest satisfaction in God.

If we desire that there be no boasting except in the cross, then we must live near the cross-indeed we must live on the cross.

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?