Quotes about Desire
Would you want to go to heaven if God were not there, only His gifts?
- John Piper
If we don't want God above all things we have not been converted by the gospel.
- John Piper
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.
- John Piper
The strength of our desire is not the measure of the strength of the final pleasure.
- John Piper
The fight for joy is the fight to see and believe Christ as more to be desired than the promises of sin.
- John Piper
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
- John Piper
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.
- John Piper
It is not a bad thing to desire our own good. In fact, the great problem of human beings is that they are far too easily pleased. They don't seek pleasure with nearly the resolve and passion that they should. And so they settle for mud pies of appetite instead of infinite delight.
- John Piper
Our mistake lies not in the intensity of our desire for happiness, but in the weakness of it.
- John Piper
And the essence of sin is preferring anything more than God. That is the root we must sever (daily!)—desiring anything more than God.
- John Piper
Most of our life is a gorging of one artificially inflamed appetite after another.
- John Piper
God is our supreme pleasure. We prefer above all else to know him and see him and be with him and be like him.
- John Piper