Quotes About Desire For God

#1. There is no alternative to doing good, if we desire for God to be good to us.

Sunday Adelaja

#2. I am deeply convince that the necessity of prayer, and to pray unceasingly, is not as much based on our desire for God as on God's desire for us. It is God's passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.

Henri Nouwen

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. For I tell you this: one loving, blind desire for God alone is more valuable in itself, more pleasing to God and to the saints, more beneficial to your own growth, and more helpful to your friends, both living and dead, than anything else you could do.

Anonymous

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

William Law

#9. The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.

R.C. Sproul

#10. desire will be at rest, not only our desire for God but all our desires; so that the joy of the blessed is full to perfection - indeed, over-full, since they will obtain more than they were capable of desiring,

Peter Kreeft

#11. Desire for God without doctrine is blind; doctrine without desire is empty.

Kevin Vanhoozer

#12. You are probably at your sanest when you come to the place where you abandon all else but your desire for God.

R.T. Kendall

#13. [T]hat his cheating and his bitterness and his cruelty were the revolt of his will ... against a deep-rooted instinct of holiness, against a desire for God that terrified and yet obsessed him.

W. Somerset Maugham

#14. May God grant us a desire for God that supersedes all other desires.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#15. Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#16. Don't for a minute think that God has forgotten about you or doesn't have your back. And don't base God's love or desire to help you on your opinion of yourself. Base it on who God says He is.

Susan May Warren

#17. The Christian story, centered as it is on the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the only story for making sense of desire and loss.

Jen Pollock Michel

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. The difference between God an I is that everyday, I too deal with people who don't love but I have no desire to kill them or wish them to suffer for all of eternity for it

Anonymous

#21. You have the body of a god and the smile of a demon. I walk towards you, barefoot, a believer walking a religious path. I wrap my arms around your neck, a priest hugging his crucifix.
I offer you my all. Burn me like incense.
Let's make all the church bells in hell ring just for us.

Malak El Halabi

#22. May the God of peace arouse in all an authentic desire for dialogue and reconciliation. Violence cannot be overcome with violence. Violence is overcome with peace.

Pope Francis

#23. I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face.

Thomas Merton

#24. One of the most important things to do in a church that wants to nurture and administrate prophetic ministry is to dial down the mysticism and the carnal desire to look superspiritual. We need to keep our eyes off people and remain focused on Jesus and His purpose for us.

Mike Bickle

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. Delighting in the Lord, knowing His Word, and committing yourself to Him are ways to ensure that your plans and desires for yourself match God's plans.

Elizabeth George

#28. Often when God does not readily give us what we want, it is because He knows what our desire would cost us. Faith sometimes means forgoing our desires because we trust Christ to have a better plan for our lives.

Beth Moore

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

Neville Goddard

#30. If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.

John Piper

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

Robert Browning

#33. Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which is their own? All we have is the Almighty's; and shall not God have his own when he calls for it?

William Penn

#34. Since God wishes it - there is nothing to be done ... Why should you thus torment yourself? Get rid of whatever He shows you to be an obstacle to His love, for His only desire is that you should live stripped of all that is not Himself.

Margaret Mary Alacoque

#35. May he grant you your heart's desire, and fulfill all your plans. 5 May we shout for joy over your victory, and in the name of our God set up our banners. May the LORD fulfill all your petitions.

Anonymous

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. But men are not content merely desire; they like to have a logical or pseudo-logical justification for their desires; they like to believe that when they want something, it is not merely for their own personal advantage, but that their desires are dictated by pure reason, by nature, by God Himself.

Aldous Huxley

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

John Piper

#40. Even avatars have to desire to be in God in every moment. And when avatars die, they desire with all their being to be united with God. ... .. Look at Ramakrishna.
How much he wept and prayed for the Divine Mother.

Mother Meera

#41. The animals have desire, or appetite. But only humans have the ability not merely to desire things, but also the creative will to take responsibility for that desire and bring about the achievement of it. That creative ability resides in the nature of God, and he has passed it on to us.

Henry Cloud

#42. God's wealth circulates in my life, it flows to me in avalanches of abundance. All my needs, desires and goals are met instantaneously, for I am one with God and he is everything!

Tony Robbins

#43. 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

#44. God's reason for creating Adam was the desire to reproduce himself.

Kenneth Copeland

#45. The resources of heaven are ready and waiting for the people of God who desire to make much of him in this world

David Platt

#46. God is not interested in the seeds he put in you; He is interested in the fruits that must come out of you!

Israelmore Ayivor

#47. I would say much of religious heresy is the result of a misunderstanding of the basic nature of God. And once we have a proper understanding of God, then usually most of the areas of our life coincide with who God is and what He desires for each one of us.

Josh McDowell

#48. If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

C.S. Lewis

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

Ravi Zacharias

#50. Do I pray that the Lord gives me the desire to do his will, or do I look for compromises because I'm afraid of God's will?

Pope Francis

#51. Comparison will be the number one thing that will keep you from doing what God's calling you to do. He's put a gift and a call and a desire in your heart that is different than anyone else's. And you're wired that way for a reason.

Kari Jobe

#52. When I was released from prison everybody thought I'd go back to doing the same things I did before, but I had no desire to do any of that anymore. That stuff steals, kills, and destroys your life and robs you of all the blessings that God has for you.

Christian Hosoi

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. True love is an intense desire for the presence of its object. God is only ours in reality when we are conscious of His nearness, and that is strange love of Him which is content to pass days without ever setting Him before itself.

Alexander MacLaren

#56. You will find what you are looking for when you realize God has placed those longings in your heart as a divine desire; your hunger is a gift from God to draw you to Him. It's a holy want with a holy fulfillment. Everything you really need and want is offered by and found in Him.

Mike Bickle

#57. 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

#58. God's decision to reach out in such dramatic fashion as to lay all rightful privilege aside and be born into abject destitution tells us that His passion for us exceeds our desire for Him. And maybe we should commit to evening that up a bit.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Byron Katie

#60. Satan's temptation may be summed up as appealing to man in this way: it made man desire to have what God had forbidden, to know what God had not revealed, and to be what God had not intended for him to be

Henry Clarence Thiessen

#61. 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

#62. God. For they had not the insight to see that I might put the lessons which they forced me to learn to any other purpose than the satisfaction of man's insatiable desire for the poverty he calls wealth and the infamy he knows as fame.

Augustine Of Hippo

#63. The desire to fulfill the purpose for which we were created is a gift from God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#64. Man is a hungry being. But he is hungry for God. Behind all the hunger of our life is God. All desire is finally a desire for Him.

Alexander Schmemann

#65. 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

#66. To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.

John Ortberg Jr.

#67. Take a pinch of belief in God, add a dash of desire to experience God, stir in emotion to taste, and you have a recipe for religious experience.

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

#68. Because ours is such a free and prosperous society, it is easier for Christians to feel secure by presuming on instead of depending on God's grace. To many believers become satisfied with physical blessings and have little desire for spiritual blessings.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#69. We can do nothing ourselves; God must do it. To speak to Him thus is easier by nature for woman than for man because a natural desire lives in her to give herself completely to someone.

Edith Stein

#70. We have lived for too long in a world, and tragically in a Church, where the wills and affections of human beings are regarded as sacrosanct as they stand, where God is required to command what we already love, and to promise what we already desire.

N. T. Wright

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. God is a careful and attentive father, ready to welcome any person who takes a step or even expresses the desire to take a step that leads home. He is there, staring out at the horizon, expecting us, waiting for us. No human sin
however serious
can prevail over or limit mercy.

Pope Francis

#74. It was presumptuous for one man to forgive another. That was the duty of God. For men to pretend such mercy was an idle pride and a lack of respect. He did not desire any such mercy for himself.

Mario Puzo

#75. God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of otherness.

David Bentley Hart

#76. Our comfort in theological traditions should never usurp our desire for spiritual Truth. If we vigorously pursue the rituals rather than a relational experience with God then we've missed His message entirely.

Jason Versey

#77. Worship is a vigorous act of reordering our desires in the light of God's burning desire for the wellness of all creation. (pg. 152)

Ellen F. Davis

#78. Ask God to give you a greater hunger for Himself and a deeper desire for His fellowship. Then be honest about whatever is keeping you from prayer, and ask God to help you deal with it.

Billy Graham

#79. God's greatest desire is for you to come to Him.

Jim George

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

Richard J. Foster

#81. God, by his own efforts and unflagging energy, recalibrates our heart's desire for his kingdom.

Jen Pollock Michel

#82. 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

#83. All desires are the inappropriate substitute for the desire to be at one with God.

Russell Brand

#84. 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

#85. I suppose I have had more advantages and privileges than most of you, who are slaves have ever known, and I believe more than many white people have enjoyed, for which I desire to bless God, and pray that he may bless those who have given them to me.

Jupiter Hammon

#86. 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

#87. We should not be afraid, when praying to God, to give expression to a definite desire, even though we are in doubt at the time we are praying whether it is really the right thing to pray for or not.

Ole Hallesby

#88. And we need to pray for our adult children to have an understanding of - and a desire for - the presence of the Holy Spirit so they can find all the freedom and liberty, deliverance and restoration, transformation and wholeness God has for them.

Stormie O'martian

#89. The most potent and acceptable prayer is the prayer that leaves the best effects. I don't mean it must immediately fill the soul with desire ... The best effects are those that are followed up by actions-when the soul not only desires the honor of God, but really strives for it.

Teresa Of Avila

#90. A woman was and is one of God's most magnificent creations. As a matter of fact, she was His grand finale. After He fashioned Eve, creation was complete and He took a rest! God has placed in our hearts a love for beauty and a desire to be beautiful - as He defines it.

Sharon Jaynes

#91. The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie.
It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for
heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not
the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality we
drink in every night.

John Piper

#92. The trouble with those of us who fail to achieve what we desire, is not that we lack the ability to do so, but that we lack the faith implicit in the "Let Go And Let God" principle, which dictates whatever is necessary for us to reach our goal will indeed occur. We

Bob Proctor

#93. Whether we think of, or speak to, God, whether we act or suffer for him, all is prayer, when we have no other object than his love, and the desire of pleasing him.

John Wesley

#94. 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

#95. 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

#96. God's desire is to not only have you experience His love, but to totally overwhelm you with His love. To have you experience it to overflowing. To have you sense, feel, taste, and touch His love for you. He really wants you to experience Him!

Linda Boone

#97. 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

#98. The Holy Spirit's desire is that we become more and more dependent upon Him for every step. That's because He wants to take us to places we've never been before. To heights we can't even imagine!

Stormie O'martian

#99. If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are not yet ready for. He wants you to have a lively desire for His greatest gifts. All of which is to say, pray always and do not lose heart.

Saint Augustine

#100. I desire to bless and praise the name of God most high for appointing me my birth in a land of Gospel Light where the glorious tidings of a Saviour and of pardon and salvation through Him have been continually sounding in mine ears.

Robert Treat Paine