Desire Quotes

When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor.

If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].

Love makes the Real of desire accessible without its tragic dimension

Always remember the essence of Christian holiness is simplicity and purity: one design, one desire: entire devotion to God.

What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.

I see the notion of talent as quite irrelevant. I see instead perseverance, application, industry, assiduity, will, will, will, desire, desire, desire.

You can’t coach desire, and no matter how fancy your training plan or how high your stated goals are, it comes down to getting out the door and doing the work day after day.

Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?

Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections, his desire, and his disposition live and reign there.

When you imagine the reality of the fulfilled desire and feel the thrill of accomplishment, your subconscious brings about the realisation of desire.

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

The soul's first adventure is the fight between two ideas: the wish to return to earth in a human form, and the desire to feel the freedom of having no form.

If u desire to grow in your relationship w God - don't do it alone. Find a community of people heading in the same direction.

All my desire was the conversion of the heathen... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world.

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

Praying, is recognizing yourself to be that which you desire to be, rather than begging God for that which you desire.

I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire

All you can possibly need or desire is already yours.Call your desires into being by imagining and feeling your wish fulfilled.

The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires are removed, the world is as light as a feather on an elephant's back.

He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul.

The true way to gain much is never to desire to gain too much.

Everyone wants to change, but change demands desire and discipline before it becomes delightful. There is always the agony of choice before the promise of change.

Memory is not what the heart desires.

So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track.

All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.

It takes a dream to get started, desire to keep going, and determination to finish.

There are those who have a desire to love, but do not have the capacity to love.

As we come unto Christ and journey to higher ground, we will desire to spend more time in His temples, because the temples represent higher ground, sacred ground.

Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.

There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.

It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives.

Why does life keep teaching me lessons I have no desire to learn?

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.

A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.

Whatever you desire, believe that you have received it, and you will.

You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.

My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.

My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.

We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another.

Courage, cheerfulness, and a desire to work depends mostly on good nutrition.

I don't want realism. I want magic!

To grow in craft is to increase the bredth of what I can do, but art is the depth, the passion, the desire, the courage to be myself and myself alone.

Should you desire the great tranquility prepare to sweat white beads.

Freedom in Christ allows you to control the desires that once controlled you.