Desire For God Quotes

• It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

  C. S. Lewis

  Strong, Sex, Children

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.

  C. S. Lewis

  Strong, Desire, Mud Puddles

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.26, Harper Collins

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

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Desire, May, Grants

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• We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sex, Ambition, Joy

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• 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

  Christian, Religious, Believe

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• Desire for God without doctrine is blind; doctrine without desire is empty.

  Kevin Vanhoozer

  Desire, Doctrine, Blind

  Kevin J. Vanhoozer (2014). “Faith Speaking Understanding: Performing the Drama of Doctrine”, p.14, Presbyterian Publishing Corp

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• 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

  Prayer, Desire, Passionate

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

  R. C. Sproul

  Heart, Loss, Desire

  R. C. Sproul (2016). “What is Reformed Theology?: Understanding the Basics”, p.95, Baker Books

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• 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

  Desire, Abandon

  R. T. Kendall (2008). “The Parables of Jesus: A Guide to Understanding and Applying the Stories Jesus Told”, p.53, Baker Books

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• 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

  Prayer, Mean, Desire

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• Shattered dreams are never random. They are always a piece in a larger puzzle, a chapter in a larger story. The Holy Spirit uses the pain of shattered dreams to help us discover our desire for God, to help us begin dreaming the highest dream. They are ordained opportunities for the Spirit to awaken, then to satisfy our highest dream.

  Larry Crabb

  Dream, Pain, Opportunity

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• Gluttony should be destroyed by self-control; unchastity by desire for God and longing for the blessings held in store; avarice by compassion for the poor; anger by goodwill and love for all men; worldly dejection by spiritual joy; listlessness by patience, perseverance and offering thanks to God; self-esteem by doing good in secret and by praying constantly with a contrite heart; and pride by not judging or despising anyone in the manner of the boastful Pharisee (cf. Lk. 18:11-12), and by considering oneself the least of all men.

  John of Damascus

  Christian, Spiritual, Perseverance

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• ... he felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are a kind of sick people, whose desire for God makes them unsatisfactory citizens of an ordinary life, but whose strength or temperament fails them to surrender the world completely; and present-day society, with its hurried pace and its mechanical and technical structure, offers no home to these unhappy souls.

  Iris Murdoch

  Home, Sick, People

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Bell”, p.74, Penguin

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