Top 1200 Desire For God Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Desire is everything, not talent. It's the degree of one's desire that will dictate the extent of one's success, in any endeavour.

Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.

To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.

In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery, caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations.

The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire.

All action is generated by desire. It is the desire to live that causes us to reincarnate.

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other peoples desire for me to do well.

As an actor, my desire was always to be different, there was a desire to associate yourself with projects that bring about the contemporary situation.

Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

EVERY intense desire is perhaps basically a desire to be different from what we are.

The life-converting experience is not the discovery that I have choices to make that determine the way I live out my existence, but the awareness that my that my existence itself is not in the center. Once I 'know' God, that is, once I experience God's love as the love in which all my human experiences are anchored, I can desire only one thing: to be in that love.

Desire is the root of selfishness; clear your heart of desire and be selfless. Selflessness is the key to inner peace.

Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire.

The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not?

The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.

Scientists have long known that Darwinism is false. They have adhered to the myth out of self-interest and a zealous desire to put down God.

It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering.

The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.

This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

I have no desire to desire, and people become like the uncarved wood by themselves.

Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.

There’s only one thing worse than not satisfying a desire. And that is not to feel any desire.

The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

...till we are uneasy in Rest, we can have no Desire to move, and without Desire of moving there can be no voluntary Motion.

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

When you see your own desire to be happy, you can't avoid seeing the same desire in others.

The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.

Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?

Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness and smallness. Desire is devotion. By all means be devoted to the real, the infinite, the eternal heart of being. Transform desire into love. All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be are expressions of your longing for happiness.

It is my observation that all human hearts are the same and that their ultimate desire is also the same. This soul wants happiness, perfect and pure happiness, because only then will all desires end. As long as desire exists misery exists, because with desire there can be no peace.

Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, Dharma and the full fledged devotion to God.

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.

There was this interesting quote: try and live your life without fear and desire. It's this concept that's like when you look at a painting in a museum and you are held in aesthetic arrest. So the I, the ego, is stripped, is gone. The observer and thing become one. That's where fear and desire come in because you don't want to own it, possess it, desire it, and it's not moving you to fear. It's like you're in this harmonious state with the object.

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.

If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.

Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth- in a word, to know himself- so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.

The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.

Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.

At the very beginning, it's a desire and that's not the same thing at all, because when you have the desire to do something, all the work you can do is a positive thing. It's not something that you calculate. An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way. The immersion, it's classical, I watched a lot of movies.

So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.

It's so much better to desire than to have.... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.

Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.

It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life.

The desire to be self-supporting and financially independent is a divine desire

We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake.

God is mighty. God is caring. God is worthy of praise. God is loving. God is able. God is in control. Nothing takes God by surprise. Some sweet reminders to soak in before falling asleep tonight.

The soul that has come to know God fully no longer desires anything else, nor does it attach itself to anything on the earth; and if you put before it a kingdom, it would not desire it, for the love of God gives such sweetness and joy to the soul that even the life of a king can no longer give it any sweetness.

Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.

We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it.

We don't even know what our desire is. We ask other people to tell us our desires. We would like our desires to come from our deepest selves, our personal depths - but if it did, it would not be desire. Desire is always for something we feel we lack.

Desire for increased wealth is not evil... it is simply the desire for more abundant life; it is aspiration.

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.