Quotes about Desire
Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness.
— John Piper
We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
— Timothy Keller
If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.
— Albert Schweitzer
Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.
— Victor Hugo
I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let's face it - we all would like to be happy.
— Joyce Meyer
Happiness is the ultimate goal. It is the goal of all other goals.
— Deepak Chopra
We must be happy with what we want when we are in pursuit of what we want.
— Jim Rohn
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
— Albert Camus
The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
— CS Lewis
Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening. . . . Come up. I'll tell your fortune. . . . Ah, you can be had.
— Mae West
When we hear people talk of riches, honors and amusements of the world, let us remember that all things have an end, and let us then say: My God, I wish for You alone and nothing more.
— Alphonsus Liguori
Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
— Livy