Quotes about Desires

Once you've confessed to him that your root problem is that you're not getting your way and once you've completely thoroughly dumped your desires and anxiety on him you'll find it much easier to deal with the people in your life, regardless of whether they ever give you the recognition, love or credit you deserve, you'll find peace because you're no longer looking at these people to meet a need that only God can meet.

What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

You can be sure that your deepest desires reveal important truths about your spiritual condition.

The mind is its thoughts, the heart is its desires, and the soul is its experiences.

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it

He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with possessions, and prosperity with money to spend in a shop.

Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.

All life was transmitted into terms of their love, all experience, all desires, all ambitions, were nullified - their senses of humour crawled into corners to sleep;

But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.

If God gave us everything we asked for, we'd be in chaos.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.