Desire God Quotes

The day we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior is one of the greatest days of our lives. Not only are our sins washed away, but God puts His Spirit inside of us and gives us new desires.

It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God.

Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him.

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.

Grace overwhelms us with God's love, and as a result our heart resonates with the desires of God: His purposes become our own.

God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself.

If we have strong desire then God miraculously removes obstacles and gives us the power to overcome them.

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

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.

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.

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.

I've learned... that we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.

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."

God's desire is that we excel.

If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.

God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy.

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.

When God's mercies are coming, their footfalls are our desires to pray.

God has made me desire always what he most wants to give me.

God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into their soul.

Do you want to see God more than you desire security?

A man after God's own heart is... a man who yearns to please God, a man who desires to grow spiritually, a man who had a heart that obeys.

Am I honest? Am I sincere? Do I really desire first the praise of God?

Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.

Sometimes pantheists will use the term "pandeism" to underscore that they share with the deists the idea that God is not a personal God who desires to be worshipped.

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.

Have faith in Guru, in his teachings, and in the surety that you can get free. Think day and night that this universe is zero, only God is. Have intense desire to get free.

Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?

True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes soon as granted fly; It liveth not in fierce desire.

Desire can make anything into a god.

As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of God and our own conscience.

We must not simply desire God; we must live in total dependence.

The young among us are, as a general thing, allied to the world. But few maintain a special warfare against the internal foe. But few have an earnest, anxious desire to know and do the will of God.

Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.

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.

If you delight yourself in lord, He shall give you desires of your heart.

Should we not invariably act in this life as though the God whom our heart desires with its highest desire were watching our every action?

God knows that you are exactly the right person who can fulfill His desires

I think God eventually changed my heart simply because I clung to my desire for Him, even though I wasn't sure how to follow through on that desire.

Never live a day without prayer.

To lust for something is desire turned selfish and gone mad. To embrace God’s passion is desire turned selfless and gone mindful.

Words matter, choose the words you use to describe yourself carefully, make sure they reflect your desire. By our words we ask from God and command the Universe. Both always deliver what we ask

There can be no god without desire.

God desires to teach us how to submit to others and how to take the second place

God so much desires to use you that he isn't thinking of using you just anyhow or somehow.

God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.