Quotes about Desire

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.

Would you want to go to heaven if God were not there, only His gifts?

If we don't want God above all things we have not been converted by the gospel.

Now there was only one hope, the sovereign grace of God. God would have to transform my heart to do what a heart cannot make itself do, namely, want what it ought to want. Only God can make the depraved heart desire God.

The strength of our desire is not the measure of the strength of the final pleasure.

The fight for joy is the fight to see and believe Christ as more to be desired than the promises of sin.

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.5

it would be a great mistake to think that the awakening of desire for the Bridegroom would produce a wave of monastic withdrawal into the fasting and prayer of passive waiting. That is not what the awakening of desire for Christ would produce. It would produce a radical, new commitment to complete the task of world evangelization, no matter what the cost. And fasting would not become a pacifistic discipline for private hopes, but a fearsome missionary weapon in the fight of faith.