Top 100 Desire God Quotes
#2. We must not simply desire God; we must live in total dependence.
Dillon Burroughs
#3. Grace is found at the depths and in the death of everything. After these smaller deaths, we know that the only "deadly sin" is to swim on the surface of things, where we never see, find, or desire God and love.
Richard Rohr
#4. All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God.
Hannah More
#5. Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
Aldous Huxley
#6. Most people who desire God look for the God state too far from home, but the seed of spiritual greatness is in the heart of all. The spiritual exercises help one find a comfortable relationship with the Eck, the Holy Spirit - and with all life.
Harold Klemp
#7. Now there was only one hope, the sovereign grace of God. God would have to transform my heart to do what a heart cannot make itself do, namely, want what it ought to want. Only God can make the depraved heart desire God.
John Piper
#9. Learning to desire God's will is not something we can accomplish by resolve and willpower. It occurs only when we live so close to God's heart that the rhythm of our own heartbeat comes to reflect the divine pulse
David G. Benner
#10. Jesus teaches us to bless our enemies (Matthew 5:44) To bless those who curse us (Luke 6:28). To "never avenge yourselves" (Romans 12:19). When we truly forgive someone, we need to come to the place where we can bless them and desire God's blessing also on their lives.
Greg Gordon
#11. Behind my non-cooperation there is always the keenest desire to cooperate on the slightest pretext even with the worst of opponents. To me, a very imperfect mortal, ever in need of God's grace, no one is beyond redemption.
Mahatma Gandhi
#12. Preserve a loving attentiveness to God with no desire to feel or understand any particular thing concerning God.
San Juan De La Cruz
#13. The great object of the Christian is duty; his predominant desire to obey God. When he can please the world consistently with these, he will do so; otherwise it is enough for him that God commands, and enough for them that he cannot disobey.
Gardiner Spring
#14. The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray.
George Muller
#15. Desire happiness, aspire to gratitude, long for health, crave compassion, seek satisfaction, lust after God, however & whatever you perceive God to be, want to love yourself, others & everything around you more and more each day
Peter McWilliams
#16. Christians need never be sick, any more than they need to be sinful. It is always God's desire to heal you.
T.L. Osborn
#17. In your journey through New England,' he wrote, 'Would you be willing to visit Northampton? You have the blessing of Heaven with you wherever you go, and I have a desire, if it be the will of God, that same blessing may come down on this town.
Johnathan Edwards
#18. There is no alternative to doing good, if we desire for God to be good to us.
Sunday Adelaja
#19. It is that which made the angels, Jesus himself, and the holiest saints humble. It is the first and chief mark of the relationship of the creature to God, of the Son to the Father - it is the secret of blessedness, the desire to be nothing, that allows God to be all in all.
Andrew Murray
#20. Man's desire for God is bedded in his unconscious & seeks to satisfy itself in physical possession of another human. This necessarily is a passing, fading attachment in its sensuous aspects since it is a poor substitute for what the unconscious is after.
Flannery O'Connor
#21. Let us therefore give ourselves to God with a great desire to begin to live thus, and beg Him to destroy in us the life of the world of sin, and to establish His life within us.
John Eudes
#22. I think God made us to desire beauty. But I'm learning we have to first find our beauty in God.
Rachel Hauck
#23. He (God) doesn't need me, but He desires me.
Bill Vaughan
#24. Never doubt God's desire or ability to help you.
T. B. Joshua
#25. By God's design, he has wired his children for spiritual reproduction. He has woven into the fabric of every single Christian's DNA a desire and ability to reproduce.
David Platt
#26. It is possible through sin to harden our hearts against God so long that we lose all desire for God. The Scripture says: "God also gave them up" [Romans 1:24 KJV].
Billy Graham
#27. Our sincere desire should be to have both clean hands and a pure heart - both a remission of sins from day to day and to walk guiltless before God.
David A. Bednar
#28. Man should earnestly desire the well - being of all God's creations and pray that we may have the strength to do so.
Mahatma Gandhi
#29. God's glory is the big news of the Bible, and my desire is that it would be all about me, but really it's all about God's glory.
Max Lucado
#30. Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him.
Brother Lawrence
#31. To lust for something is desire turned selfish and gone mad. To embrace God's passion is desire turned selfless and gone mindful.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#32. When anyone but God tells me I can or cannot, should or should not do something, I get a distinct desire to rebel.
Melanie Dickerson
#33. The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.
Charles Bent
#34. God's love means that our Creator desires to have a relationship with us. God's holiness prevents him from having fellowship with us and, instead, demands the outpouring of his anger against us.
Robert Jeffress
#35. You can only seek God when you have already found God. The desire for God's unconditional love is the fruit of having been touched by that love.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#36. True love of others, according to Jesus, flows out of a love of God. The service of our lives flow out of the loving relationship we have with God. Too often we desire our service to create a loving relationship with God. Yet God does not seek after us because of any good deeds we have done.
Tyler Braun
#37. Nurture the qualities in yourself that you desire in your friends.
Elizabeth George
#38. God takes men's hearty desires and will, instead of the deed, where they have not power to fulfill it; but he never took the bare deed instead of the will.
Richard Baxter
#39. Feeling the security and constancy of love from a spouse, a parent or a child is a rich blessing. Such love nurtures and sustains faith in God. Such love is a source of strength and casts out fear. Such love is the desire of every human soul.
David A. Bednar
#40. Every touch ramped her desire higher and the carnal look in Chad's eyes was making swallowing difficult.By the time the waiter served their coffee, she was ready to throw him down on the table and ravish him in front of God and everybody.
Tamara Hoffa
#41. GOD will not permit that a soul which desires to be devoted entirely to Him should take other pleasures than with Him: that is more than reasonable.
Brother Lawrence
#42. I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.
George W. Bush
#43. It is right to love beauty and to desire it; but God desires us to love and seek first the highest beauty, that which is imperishable. No outward adorning can compare in value or loveliness with that "meek and quiet spirit."
Ellen G. White
#44. Prayer is not a device for getting our wills done through heaven, but a desire that God's will may be done on earth through us.
Croft M. Pentz
#45. I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.
Lou Holtz
#46. God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.
Saint Augustine
#47. If we do not desire to work in order to receive these things, God will be powerless to help us
Sunday Adelaja
#49. He was still a mystery to me. And God, did I want to play Nancy Drew.
Cora Carmack
#50. God's will and desire - His pleasure - is that we love Him. We cannot please God unless we love Him. We cannot love Him unless we know Him, and we cannot know Him unless we have faith in Him.
Myles Munroe
#51. God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.
Richard Rohr
#52. I would desire every divine to beware that he tell not the unsanctified, that whoever hath the least degree of love to God for himself, and not as a means to carnal ends, shall certainly be saved ; for he would certainly deceive many thousand miserable souls that should persuade them of this (670).
Richard Baxter
#53. One of the consistent themes you'll find throughout the Bible is that God will always provide the necessary information about Jesus Christ to someone who sincerely desires to receive that revelation.
Robert Jeffress
#54. In God's name, Monsieur, let us remain indifferent; let us strive to be equally attached to whatever obedience marks out for us, be it agreeable or disagreeable. By the grace of God, we belong to Him; what else should we desire except to please Him?
Vincent De Paul
#55. God's Word tells us that God has spoken of old in many portions and in many ways through His servants concerning His heart's desire and that He loves us. But man did not understand. Therefore, God had to personally come to this world and become a man. This man is Jesus, the Christ, whom we know.
Watchman Nee
#56. God desires to teach us how to submit to others and how to take the second place
Sunday Adelaja
#57. Everybody is always touting the division between religion and science ... That division is based on a false premise. It simply doesn't exist. The first sciences developed from a desire to prove the existence of God. In that sense, science and religion have been hand in hand from the very beginning.
A.J. Kazinski
#58. If you are a believer you are not supposed to begin to convince God to use you. God already desires to use you.
Sunday Adelaja
#59. So the desire you have, that itch that you have to be whatever it is you want to be ... that itch, that desire for good is God's proof to you sent already to indicate that it's yours. You already have it. Claim it.
Denzel Washington
#60. If we desire to do what will please God, and what will help men, we presently find ourselves taken out of our narrow habits of thought and action; we find new elements of our nature called into activity; we are no longer running along a narrow track of selfish habit.
James Freeman Clarke
#61. Two people can remain "in love"
a phrase made practically useless by stinking romanticism
only if their common desire for each other unites in a greater desire for God.
Flannery O'Connor
#62. The Christian will desire to see the beauty of God in his house, that his soul might be ravished in the excellency of the object, and that the highest powers of his soul, his understanding, will, and affections might be fully satisfied, that he might have full contentment.
Richard Sibbes
#63. How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
Ibn Arabi
#64. If you desire the spirit of God you must keep the commandments of God.
Heber J. Grant
#65. If God's Word says He hears and answers prayer, and if that Word doesn't depart from before your eyes, then you're bound to see yourself with the things you asked for. If you don't see yourself with the things you desire, then God's Word has departed from before your eyes.
Kenneth E. Hagin
#66. God has allowed some magical reversal to occur,
so that you see the scorpion pit
as an object of desire,
and all the beautiful expanse around it
as dangerous and swarming with snakes.
Rumi
#67. In Deuteronomy 11, God offers Israel a choice; either a life of productivity and enjoyment made possible by obedience to Him, or a life of difficulty and opposition made necessary by disobedience. The happiness Israel desires can only be theirs by being properly related to Him.
Max Anders
#68. But our God is a God of grace. If we desire to be like him, we need to go beyond being people who are saved by grace to be people who are characterized by grace.
John H. Walton
#69. We must speak to God as a friend speaks to his friend, servant to his master; now asking some favor, now acknowledging our faults, and communicating to Him all that concerns us, our thoughts, our fears, our projects, our desires, and in all things seeking His counsel.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#70. I moaned in frustration, trapped between desire and fear. "God, Roth." "In your life, at this time, those two words could be considered synonymous.
Jasinda Wilder
#71. The central question is, Are the leaders of the future truly men and women of God, people with an ardent desire to dwell in God's presence, to listen to God's voice, to look at God's beauty, to touch God's incarnate Word and to taste fully God's infinite goodness.
Henri Nouwen
#72. Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel.
Thomas Keating
#73. What Jesus invites us to imitate is his own desire, the spirit that directs him toward the goal on which his intention is fixed: to resemble God the Father as much as possible.
Rene Girard
#74. I understand that, each time we contemplate with desire and devotion the Host in which is hidden Christ's Eucharistic Body, we increase our merits in heaven and secure special joys to be ours later in the beatific vision of God
Gertrude The Great
#75. God desires to use you is to use you in the best possible fashion.
Sunday Adelaja
#76. There was something capricious about God. How could one expect perfect submission from those who are imperfect? How could one create desire and then expect everyone to pull the plug on it? And if God were capricious, then God was imperfect. If God were imperfect, God was not God.
Jerry Pinto
#77. Let us desire that not our wills, but His will, be done.74 If we have not progressed as far as this, then, as I have said, let us practise humility, which is the ointment for our wounds; if we are truly humble, God, the Physician,75 will come in due course, even though He tarry, to heal us.
Teresa Of Avila
#78. One of the greatest foes of the Christian is religious complacency.. Orthodox Christianity has fallen to its present low estate from lack of spiritual desire. Among the many who profess the Christian faith, scarcely one in a thousand reveals any passionate thirst for God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#79. Our natural Will is to have God, and the Good Will of God is to have us; and we may never cease from willing nor from longing till we have Him in fullness of joy: and then may we no more desire.
Julian Of Norwich
#80. Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God.
David Brainerd
#81. Here it is: if you are God's child, the life force that energizes your thoughts, desires, words, and actions is no longer you; it's Christ! God didn't just forgive you. No, he has come to live inside of you so you will have the power to desire and do what he calls you to do.
Paul David Tripp
#82. May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.
A.B. Simpson
#83. It has been said by many great Christians that prayer is our secret weapon. If we desire to be free from every enemy stronghold over our lives and fully fortified to live the superhuman existences God intended us to live, then we must learn how to pray.
Leslie Ludy
#84. With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it, what do we lack? Surely we are the most favored of all creatures.
A.W. Tozer
#85. Man's desire is to know the mind of God.
Jared Brock
#86. God's guidance is almost always step-by-step; He does not show us our life's plan all at once. Sometimes our anxiousness to know the will of God comes from a desire to peer over God's shoulder to see what His plan is. What we need to do is learn to trust Him to guide us.
Jerry Bridges
#87. If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or of glass? What is it to me whether the will of God be presented to me in tribulation or consolation, since I desire and seek only the Divine will? ...
Saint Francis De Sales
#88. The needs you have for love, respect, security, and admiration cannot be met by the desire of your heart. They are fulfilled by God - and Him alone.
Charles F. Stanley
#89. Prayer involves transformed passions. In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God's thoughts after Him: to desire the things He desires, to love the things He loves, to will the things He wills.
Richard J. Foster
#90. I have indeed - praise be to God - attained my desire in this world, which was to travel through the earth, and i have attained in this respect what no other person has attained to my knowledge.
Ibn Battuta
#91. I strongly encourage you to be careful not to let anything become more important to you than it should be. Keep God first so He can bless you with other things you desire.
Joyce Meyer
#92. For your heart to be filled with God's love is to forgive easily
Sunday Adelaja
#93. Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
#94. Mortals are known by their actions; this is the way it has to be. They should show goodness, and not be deformed by their actions; this is how they are called beautiful. Whatever they desire, they shall receive; O Nanak, they become the very image of God.
Guru Angad
#95. To fulfil the insatiable desire of God is to fit in into his need
Sunday Adelaja
#96. I've learned ... that we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.
Andy Rooney
#97. According to Diotima, Love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people and the objects of their desire. Love is neither wise nor beautiful, but is rather the desire for wisdom and beauty.
Plato
#98. The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God
John Quincy Adams
#99. God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.
Saint Augustine
#100. For everything that God desires to do in the earth, He enters into partnership with those to whom He has already given dominion.
Myles Munroe
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