Sanctification in myself, and the ingathering of God’s elect, was all my desire; and the hope of its accomplishment, all my joy.
—David Brainerd
I think I do not desire to live one minute for any thing that earth can afford. Oh, that I could live for none but God, till my dying moment!
—David Brainerd
Oh, it refreshed my soul, to think of former things, of desires to glorify God, of the pleasures of living to him!
—David Brainerd
O may I grow in fear and love in desire to change worlds, in devotedness to Christ and his service.
—William Wilberforce
The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
—Heraclitus
The modern liberal desires to produce upon the minds of simple Christians (and upon his own mind) the impression of some sort of continuity between modern liberalism and the thought and life of the great Apostle. But such an impression is altogether misleading.
—J. Gresham Machen
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
—Thomas Aquinas
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
—George Washington
Live so that you neither fear death nor desire it.
—Leo Tolstoy
What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?
—Nikolai Gogol
In girls, there is no greater desire than that protected by the father.
—Sigmund Freud
*The saints delight in Christ*; he is their joy, their crown, their rejoicing, their life, food, health, strength, desire, righteousness, salvation, blessedness: without him they have nothing; in him they shall find all things.
—John Owen
Let us not be of the number of those, who desire the honour that cometh of man; but be content with that which cometh from GOD.
—George Whitefield