Quotes about Desire
In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.
— Philip Yancey
The deepest desire of our hearts is for union for God. God created us for union with himself. This is the original purpose of our lives.
— Brennan Manning
God gives salvation to the needy, but gives the deep things of His heart to the hungry who refuse to live without them.
— Mike Bickle
When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively.
— Martin Luther
He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.
— Alphonsus Liguori
Nothing short of God can satisfy your soul.
— John Wesley
True desire in the heart for anything good is God's proof to you sent beforehand to indicate that it's yours already.
— Denzel Washington
God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.
— John of the Cross
No person, possession, profession, or position ever fills the cup of a wounded, empty heart. It's an emptiness only God can fill.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Beware of begging God for things you don't have to have.
— James MacDonald
The only thing harder than waiting on God, is wishing that you had!
— Steven Furtick
When you have become God's in the measure he desires, then he himself will bestow you upon others; unless, to your greater glory, he chooses to keep you all to himself.
— St. Basil