Desire For God Quotes by Kevin Vanhoozer, R. T. Kendall, C. S. Lewis, Aiden Wilson Tozer, William Law, R. C. Sproul and many others.
Desire for God without doctrine is blind; doctrine without desire is empty.
You are probably at your sanest when you come to the place where you abandon all else but your desire for God.
It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.
May God grant us a desire for God that supersedes all other desires.
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.
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.
The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.
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.
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.
