God Desire Quotes

#1. Will is a gift from God, desire from the devil.

James Rozoff

#2. Know this! They (false prophets) are the judgment of God upon a wicked defiled people who although they have a knowledge of God they do not want him. And so God sends them the teachers that they themselves desire.

Paul Washer

#3. It [Adam's act] cast off the authority of God, usurped his prerogative, and gave the mind up to the dominion of natural desire

John L. Dagg

#4. The desire of God's heart is immeasurably larger than our imaginations can conjure.

Greg Boyle

#5. 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

#6. Sound preaching arises out of two loves - love of the Word of God and love of people - and from them both a desire to show people God's glorious grace.

Timothy Keller

#7. Let disappointment do its deep work
remind you that your true desire is found, not in God's ways or God's will or God's blessings, but in God himself.

Emily P. Freeman

#8. Peace comes when we see our reflection in the face of God and let go of the desire to be someone else.

Jonathan Sacks

#9. Desire is God tapping at the door of your mind, trying to give you greater good.

H. Emilie Cady

#10. I think God made us to desire beauty. But I'm learning we have to first find our beauty in God.

Rachel Hauck

#11. Apart from new dreams, opportunities, love and blessings in new places, it's God's most earnest desire to give you a new life.

Jamie Larbi

#12. Our life is a gymnasium of desire ... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."

Saint Augustine

#13. The priest's work, the priest's service, was understoon as an act of worship. Theis was Gods desire at Sinai - thst everybody would understand their roles as priests. Thst everybody would worship God by serving each other.

Rob Bell

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. There is no group or type of people anywhere in the world that is excluded from salvation, because God desires that the gospel be proclaimed to all without exception.

John Calvin

#17. The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.

John Piper

#18. Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy.

Robert Browning

#19. A tear is enough water to float a desire to God.

Charles Spurgeon

#20. We are, by nature, receivers. Even if we have a desire to learn God's Word, we still listen from a default self-centered mind-set that is always asking, What can I get out of this?

David Platt

#21. 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

#22. For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it teaches people to deny their hearts, their true selves.

Rob Bell

#23. 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

#24. Desire for and delight in God's Word are inseparable.

John Piper

#25. What if our loneliness is the result not simply of needing a partner but of needing people? We are made in the image of a relational God; it makes sense that we possess the desire to be together.

Debra Fileta

#26. What I find disturbing in America is the consuming desire for leisure, convenience, and fun. It seems we, as a nation, have traded God for gadgets. We have traded eternal truth for momentary self-gratification - worshipping false gods of materialism and humanism instead of the Creator of all things.

Billy Graham

#27. Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.

Deepak Chopra

#28. Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.

Ravi Zacharias

#29. 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

#30. No more restless uncertainties, no more anxious desires, no more impatience at the place we are in; for it is God who has placed us there, and who holds us in his arms. Can we be unsafe where he has placed us?

Francois Fenelon

#31. You put God first in your life and didn't try to gain everything for yourself, and now God has given you your heart's desire.

M.H. Strom

#32. 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

#33. Who would marry her and take care of her? O God, let it be me. His chest ached with the fervor of his desire - and his impossible request.

Melanie Dickerson

#34. It's only with that absolute humility and purity that you can make friends with God; because, otherwise, you're just too busy with all your desires.

Frederick Lenz

#35. God always forgives when you are totally repentant and you desire to change. He forgives ... and He never gets tired of forgiving. Never. You may get tired asking. I hope not. He never, never tires of forgiving. Never.

Mother Angelica

#36. What is this thing that makes us human? Birth, heartbreak, a desire for safety and order? Is it anger, shame, or fear? What we desire is unattainable and although we know it, we keep striving for it. Sisyphus, the Greek god, and all that.

Fadia Faqir

#37. 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

#38. At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.

R.C. Sproul

#39. Children are born with a desire to have meaning. Give them Jesus, and they will have it eternally.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#40. 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

#41. Rather than walking in the flesh, they now "walk by the Spirit" (v. 25), being characterized by a growing desire to obey the Word of God.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#42. We are the farmers of the future. If we desire all the gifts of God, if we seek to win the Golden Crown, we can't just sit back and watch. We have to make it happen.

Chris Heimerdinger

#43. Nothing must come before the kingdom of God, including the desire for a simple life-style.

Richard J. Foster

#44. The proper self-knowledge and self-love of every created thing is ipso facto a participation in the knowledge and love of God. The entire universe moves by desire for the Highest Good simply because every part of it loves what God loves - namely, its own being.

Robert Farrar Capon

#45. Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.

Teresa Of Avila

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. God often takes a course for accomplishing His purposes directly contrary to what our narrow views would prescribe. He brings a death upon our feelings, wishes, and prospects when He is about to give us the desire of our hearts.

John Newton

#49. I truly understood the meaning of hope. It is something much bigger than anything physical we may desire. It's about raising our eyes from a point on the horizon to the heavens and into eternity. And it's about relying on God's grace to do it, no matter what the cost.

Laura Sobiech

#50. It is the desire for irreverence as much as anything else that brought me first to poetry. The need to make fun of authority, break taboos, celebrate the body and its functions, claim that one has seen angels in the same breath as one says that there is no god.

Charles Simic

#51. Prayer is the idea of wishing for something from the depth of our hearts and bringing that desire forward to the throne of God.

Greg Laurie

#52. We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to man, to God, or to angels.

Swami Vivekananda

#53. 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

#54. In the same way, God sometimes turns off the other sources of our pleasure so that we might learn to find all of our delight in him. He must be our desire.

William B. Barcley

#55. Desire to know God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#56. No one can desire the love of God without first knowing human love.

Paulo Coelho

#57. Preaching, then, is proclaiming God's desire to take hearers from where they are to where God wants them to be through the gospel.

Julius J. Kim

#58. I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences ...

Oliver Cromwell

#59. If I had a prayer, it would be this: "God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen."

Byron Katie

#60. God desires to use you is to use you in the best possible fashion.

Sunday Adelaja

#61. God's desire is that Christians would not just be believers in word but He wants everyone who looks at us to see him in us

Sunday Adelaja

#62. Saying of the Prophet
Desire
Desire not the world, and God will love you. Desire not what others have, and they will love you.

Idries Shah

#63. God made us to crave - to desire eagerly, want greatly, and long for Him. But Satan wants to do everything possible to replace our craving for God with something else.

Lysa TerKeurst

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

Walter Hilton

#65. If you and I desire the blessings of life, of health, of vigor of body and mind; if we desire the destroying angel to pass us by, as he did in the days of the children of Israel, we must obey the Word of Wisdom; then God is bound, and the blessing shall come to us.

Heber J. Grant

#66. As the eye naturally seeks the light and vision, and our body naturally desires food and drink, so our mind is possessed with a becoming and natural desire to become acquainted with the truth of God and the causes of things.

Origen

#67. What is your ambition in life today? Is it to get rich? Is it to make a name for yourself? Is it even to do some wonderful thing for God? Listen to me, beloved. The highest desire that can possess any human heart is a longing to see God.

J. Vernon McGee

#68. Therefore, whether the desire for prayer is on you or not, get to your closet at the set time; shut yourself in with God; wait upon Him; seek His face; realize Him; pray.

Robert Forman Horton

#69. "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto you." Follow God and you shall have whatever you desire.

Swami Vivekananda

#70. Yahweh: You've been unhappy because you've desired things that cannot be.
Lucifer: That's what desire IS. The need for what we can't have. The need for what's readily available is called greed.

Mike Carey

#71. If you desire to be rich with joy, you have to be truly dedicated to God and His work

Sunday Adelaja

#72. Angels, living light most glorious! Beneath the Godhead in burning desire in the darkness and mystery of creation you look on the eye of your God never taking your fill: What glorious pleasures take shape within you!

Hildegard Of Bingen

#73. St Augustine says: 'The true servant of God does not desire to be told or to be given what they would like to hear or see, for their prime and highest wish is to hear what is most pleasing to God.'3

Meister Eckhart

#74. We set forth our petitions before God, not in order to make known to Him our needs and desires, but rather so that we ourselves may realize that in these things it is necessary to turn to God for help.

Thomas Aquinas

#75. 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

#76. Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on Earth.

John Wesley

#77. Leaders should never apologize for the strength of feeling that accompanies their God-given visions. God designed leaders to experience their longing, their desire, and their drive deeply, and to express it fully. And when they do, they energize others.

Bill Hybels

#78. For your heart to be filled with God's love is to forgive easily

Sunday Adelaja

#79. Never have I subscribed to the doctrine of willful rejection of the world or its visual image. To the non-objectivist this act of impiety may be shockingly impure, but God, I have no desire to be either hollow or sterile.

Norman Mailer

#80. 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

#81. To fulfil the insatiable desire of God is to fit in into his need

Sunday Adelaja

#82. 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

#83. Our desire for knowledge is not bad but our failure to believe what God said is deadly.

Jonah Books

#84. To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.

Dallas Willard

#85. Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy.

Henry Ward Beecher

#86. Chocolate or a good man can instigate your heart's surrender, but full-bodied pleasure and overflowing love - opening until you are exposed fully to God as love's bliss - is the only way to live true to your deepest desire, with or without a trustable lover or a tasty dessert.

David Deida

#87. 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

#88. God's highest desire is not to make us rich, successful or popular. His goal is to make us His

Max Lucado

#89. The Lord commands us to learn and discover all we can in this life. There's nothing wrong with wanting to know the mysteries of outer space or the latent powers of the mind. The problem comes when we desire to use that knowledge for our own gratification, rather than to build the kingdom of God.

Chris Heimerdinger

#90. Willie Mays could throw better, and Hank Aaron could hit more home runs. But I've got enthusiasm. I've got desire. I've got hustle. Those are God-given talents, too.

Pete Rose

#91. If you want to see God, kill desires. Desires are in the mind. When you have a desire for something, don't act on it and it will go away. If you desire to drink this cup of tea, don't, and the desire for it will go away.

Neem Karoli Baba

#92. Marriage is the harmony of God synchronizing two wills with the will of the Father.

Ravi Zacharias

#93. Abandon desire for this world, and God will love you. Abandon desire for others' goods, and people will love you.

Ibn Majah

#94. With the full assurance God is okay with me even when I'm not okay with me. And I realize, I can't hold on to the desire to run and at the same time go where God wants to lead me.

Lysa TerKeurst

#95. Desire is insatiable as death, but He who fills all in all can fill it. The capacity of our wishes who can measure? But the immeasurable wealth of God can more than overflow it.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#96. God's will is that none should perish. Judgement isn't His desire ... but His necessity. The good must bring evil to an end, or else it would cease to be good. And yet His mercy is still greater than His judgement. His heart always wills for redemption. And therein lies the hope.

Jonathan Cahn

#97. Who God is and what Christ did have huge implications for who we are personally and what we desire sexually.

David Platt

#98. To embrace the message of Christmas is to throw off my hedonistic rebellion and bow before the chafing reality that I can't save myself, and in that very act to be suddenly taken aback in that I've stumbled upon the very freedom I've longed for in the very place I'd least expected it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#99. I plunged into the job of creating something from nothing ... Though I hadn't a penny left, I considered cash money as the smallest part of my resources. I had faith in a living God, faith in myself, and a desire to serve.

Mary McLeod Bethune

#100. God desires from you the least degree of purity of conscience more than all the works you can perform.

John Of The Cross