Quotes about Desire
Trying harder doesn't work for me. Slowly I've learned to pray for God's help and He has become my greatest love and desire.
- Francis Chan
Those who love desire to share with the beloved. They want to be one with the beloved, and Sacred Scripture shows us the great love story of God for his people which culminated in Jesus Christ.
- Pope Benedict XVI
We all want the wrong things, but God is in the business of changing what we want.
- Timothy Lane
What we are getting at is that, because you are a human being, there is always something you are living for; always some desire, goal, treasure, purpose, value, or craving that controls your heart.
- Timothy Lane
Romans 1:25 indicates that idolatry is often the result of taking good things in creation and making them ultimate things. They usurp the supreme place that only the Creator should have in our hearts and lives.
- Timothy Lane
Your words are always in pursuit of some kind of kingdom.
- Timothy Lane
Our purpose is to get what we want, but God's purpose is to give us what we really need.
- Timothy Lane
Our hearts are so often captivated by paltry God-replacements that matter to us more than the true God. When we start to see this, it is the beginning of change and the pathway to freedom.
- Timothy Lane
We are worshipers who enter into relationship with the person or thing we think will give us life.
- Timothy Lane
It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
- St. Augustine
After a man falls madly in love, he no longer cares how old she is.
- Helen Fisher