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title: "96 Desire God Quotes by 73 authors"
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> [To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-fenelon/to-pray-is-to-desire-but-it-is-to-desire-what-god-would-have-us-desire/)

[Francois Fenelon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-fenelon/)

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> [At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-c-sproul/at-the-moment-i-sin-i-desire-the-sin-more-than-i-desire-to-please-god/)

[R. C. Sproul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-c-sproul/)

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> [A tear is enough water to float a desire to God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-spurgeon/a-tear-is-enough-water-to-float-a-desire-to-god/)

[Charles Spurgeon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-spurgeon/)

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> [LIFE + DESIRE = MAN; LIFE - DESIRE = GOD.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sathya-sai-baba/life-desire-man-life-desire-god/)

[Sathya Sai Baba](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sathya-sai-baba/)

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> [We must not simply desire God; we must live in total dependence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dillon-burroughs/we-must-not-simply-desire-god-we-must-live-in-total-dependence/)

[Dillon Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dillon-burroughs/)

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> [Moses desired to see God; I do not desire to see God;He desires to see me](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bayazid-bastami/moses-desired-to-see-god-i-do-not-desire-to-see-god-he-desires-to-see/)

[Bayazid Bastami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bayazid-bastami/)

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> [Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/desire-only-god-and-your-heart-will-be-satisfied/)

[Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/)

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> [May God grant us a desire for God that supersedes all other desires.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aiden-wilson-tozer/may-god-grant-us-a-desire-for-god-that-supersedes-all-other-desires/)

[Aiden Wilson Tozer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aiden-wilson-tozer/)

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> [Man should earnestly desire the well - being of all God's creations and pray that we may have the strength to do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/man-should-earnestly-desire-the-well-being-of-all-god-s-creations-and/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ursula-k-le-guin/is-it-the-gods-who-set-this-fire-in-our-hearts-or-do-we-each-make-our/)

[Ursula K. Le Guin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ursula-k-le-guin/)

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> [“The desire for God is written in the human heart, because man is created by God and for God; and God never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/the-catholic-church/the-desire-for-god-is-written-in-the-human-heart-because-man-is/)

[The Catholic Church](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/the-catholic-church/)

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> [Sins desire will take you down to the fire but God's the only one who can stop the twisted liar.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zion-y-lennox/sins-desire-will-take-you-down-to-the-fire-but-god-s-the-only-one-who/)

[Zion Y Lennox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zion-y-lennox/)

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> [“Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virgil/do-the-gods-light-this-fire-in-our-hearts-or-does-each-man-s-mad/)

[Virgil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virgil/)

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> [“I hope it affirms your desire for 'more God'- even if you are surrounded by people who feel they have 'enough God'.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-chan/i-hope-it-affirms-your-desire-for-more-god-even-if-you-are-surrounded/)

[Francis Chan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-chan/)

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> [“desire for God’s presence, provision, and protection. No matter where we are, our desire should be for God because only he satisfies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/desire-for-god-s-presence-provision-and-protection-no-matter-where-we/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [If you desire to please God with the decision you make and afterward it proves to be a mistake, it’s an error…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysa-terkeurst/if-you-desire-to-please-god-with-the-decision-you-make-and-afterward/)

[Lysa TerKeurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysa-terkeurst/)

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> [It is right to love beauty and to desire it; but God desires us to love and seek first the highest beauty,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-g-white/it-is-right-to-love-beauty-and-to-desire-it-but-god-desires-us-to/)

[Ellen G. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-g-white/)

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> [It's very important to get your desires centered so you will desire only to do God's will for you. You can come…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peace-pilgrim/it-s-very-important-to-get-your-desires-centered-so-you-will-desire/)

[Peace Pilgrim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peace-pilgrim/)

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> [“Perhaps it is not surprising, then, that we do the same with our deepest longings for God. God does not always come…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-g-may/perhaps-it-is-not-surprising-then-that-we-do-the-same-with-our/)

[Gerald G. May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-g-may/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-nouwen/i-am-deeply-convince-that-the-necessity-of-prayer-and-to-pray/)

[Henri Nouwen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-nouwen/)

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> [Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their desire after…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aiden-wilson-tozer/come-near-to-the-holy-men-and-women-of-the-past-and-you-will-soon-2/)

[Aiden Wilson Tozer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aiden-wilson-tozer/)

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> [“Antony wanted to be whole and to experience more progress in his desire for God. The angelic vision corrected his desire for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-keller/antony-wanted-to-be-whole-and-to-experience-more-progress-in-his/)

[David Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-keller/)

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> [It should be observed that perfect love of God consists not in those delights, tears and sentiments of devotion that we generally…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/teresa-of-vila/it-should-be-observed-that-perfect-love-of-god-consists-not-in-those/)

[Teresa of Avila](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/teresa-of-vila/)

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> [Satan's temptation may be summed up as appealing to man in this way: it made man desire to have what God had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-clarence-thiessen/satan-s-temptation-may-be-summed-up-as-appealing-to-man-in-this-way/)

[Henry Clarence Thiessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-clarence-thiessen/)

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> [“Your desire for more of God than you have right now, your longing for love, your need for deeper levels of spiritual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-haley-barton/your-desire-for-more-of-god-than-you-have-right-now-your-longing-for/)

[Ruth Haley Barton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-haley-barton/)

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> [“We desire that God would give us the death-stroke; but we long to die without pain; we would die to our own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-fenelon/we-desire-that-god-would-give-us-the-death-stroke-but-we-long-to-die/)

[François Fénelon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-fenelon/)

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> [Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/mental-prayer-in-my-opinion-is-nothing-else-than-an-intimate-sharing/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“According to Maximus the Confessor in "One Hundred Chapters of Love", the key to directing and increasing one's desire for God is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-k-a-smith/according-to-maximus-the-confessor-in-one-hundred-chapters-of-love/)

[James K.A. Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-k-a-smith/)

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> [“Search in yourself and feel the times of your burning desire for God. Pray: how do I block myself from Your Divine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/padma-aon-prakasha/search-in-yourself-and-feel-the-times-of-your-burning-desire-for-god/)

[Padma Aon Prakasha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/padma-aon-prakasha/)

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> [“A man who struggles long to pray and study Torah will be able to discover the sparks of divine light in all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-dillard/a-man-who-struggles-long-to-pray-and-study-torah-will-be-able-to/)

[Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-dillard/)

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> [“Focus on your desire for Divine Love. Feel and release the wounds of your soul and their deepest causes. And then, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/padma-aon-prakasha/focus-on-your-desire-for-divine-love-feel-and-release-the-wounds-of/)

[Padma Aon Prakasha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/padma-aon-prakasha/)

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> [God operates by different rules of time and space. And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-yancey/god-operates-by-different-rules-of-time-and-space-and-god-s-infinite/)

[Philip Yancey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-yancey/)

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> [“We do not feel God’s Love because we have chosen to become self-reliant. It is hard for Divine Love to come in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/padma-aon-prakasha/we-do-not-feel-god-s-love-because-we-have-chosen-to-become-self/)

[Padma Aon Prakasha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/padma-aon-prakasha/)

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> [“Now there was only one hope, the sovereign grace of God. God would have to transform my heart to do what a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-piper/now-there-was-only-one-hope-the-sovereign-grace-of-god-god-would-have/)

[John Piper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-piper/)

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> [“To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religionist, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-w-tozer/to-have-found-god-and-still-to-pursue-him-is-the-soul-s-paradox-of-2/)

[A.W. Tozer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-w-tozer/)

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> [“As all men are touched by God’s love, so all are also touched by the desire for His intimacy. No one escapes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fulton-j-sheen/as-all-men-are-touched-by-god-s-love-so-all-are-also-touched-by-the/)

[Fulton J. Sheen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fulton-j-sheen/)

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> [“O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-w-tozer/o-god-i-have-tasted-thy-goodness-and-it-has-both-satisfied-me-and-2/)

[A.W. Tozer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-w-tozer/)

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> [“Does God get what God wants? That’s a good question. An interesting question. And it’s an important question that has given us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-bell/does-god-get-what-god-wants-that-s-a-good-question-an-interesting/)

[Rob Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-bell/)

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> [“Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their desire after…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-w-tozer/come-near-to-the-holy-men-and-women-of-the-past-and-you-will-soon/)

[A.W. Tozer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-w-tozer/)

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> [“Curiously enough, it is a fear of how grace will change and improve them that keeps many souls away from God. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fulton-j-sheen/curiously-enough-it-is-a-fear-of-how-grace-will-change-and-improve/)

[Fulton J. Sheen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fulton-j-sheen/)

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## Top authors on Desire God

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                        "text": "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.",
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                        "text": "Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their desire after God. They mourned for Him, they prayed and wrestled and sought for Him day and night, in season and out, and when they found Him, the finding was all the sweeter for the long seeking.",
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                        "text": "“Antony wanted to be whole and to experience more progress in his desire for God. The angelic vision corrected his desire for something “better” than what he was doing. It reassured him to continue his pattern of constant integration of work and prayer, mundane as it was.”",
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                        "text": "It should be observed that perfect love of God consists not in those delights, tears and sentiments of devotion that we generally seek, but in a strong determination and keen desire to please God in all things, and to promote His glory.",
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                        "text": "Satan's temptation may be summed up as appealing to man in this way: it made man desire to have what God had forbidden, to know what God had not revealed, and to be what God had not intended for him to be",
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                        "text": "“Your desire for more of God than you have right now, your longing for love, your need for deeper levels of spiritual transformation than you have experienced so far is the truest thing about you. You might think that your woundedness or your sinfulness is the truest thing about you or that your giftedness or your personality type or your job title or your identity as husband or wife, mother or father, somehow defines you. But, in reality, it is your desire for God and your capacity to reach for more of God than you have right now that is the deepest essence of who you are.”",
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                        "text": "“We desire that God would give us the death-stroke; but we long to die without pain; we would die to our own will by the power of the will itself; we want to lose all and still hold all. Ah! what agony, what distress, when God has brought us to the end of our strength! We faint like a patient under a painful surgical operation. But the comparison is nought, for the object of the surgeon is to give us life -- that of God to make us die.”",
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                        "text": "Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.",
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                        "text": "“According to Maximus the Confessor in \"One Hundred Chapters of Love\", the key to directing and increasing one's desire for God is the acquisition of the virtues-which, you'll recall, we described above as noncognitive \"dispositions\" acquired through practices. So how does one acquire such virtues, such dispositions of desire? Through participation in concrete Christian practices like confession.”",
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                        "text": "“Search in yourself and feel the times of your burning desire for God. Pray: how do I block myself from Your Divine Love? What unfelt emotions block me from feeling Your Love more? The answer could also be that you are not loving yourself, that you are judging yourself, that you are living in a false hope, that you have abandoned your love for yourself in your life, that you give it away cheaply to others, that you compromise it because you think it is the right thing to do, that to be a martyr is right, that to ignore your own feelings is the spiritual way.”",
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                        "text": "“A man who struggles long to pray and study Torah will be able to discover the sparks of divine light in all of creation, in each solitary bush and grain and woman and man. And when he cleaves strenuously to God for many years, he will be able to release the sparks to unwrap and lift these particular shreds of holiness, and return them to God. This is the human task: to direct and channel the spark's return. This task is tikkun, restoration. Yours is a holy work on earth right now, they say, whatever that work is if you tie your love and desire to God. You do not deny or flee the world, but redeem it, all of it - just as it is.”",
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                        "text": "“Focus on your desire for Divine Love. Feel and release the wounds of your soul and their deepest causes. And then, you will be given something far more amazing than you could think of when you had all your wounds, because many of the intentions you had when you were living in your wounds will largely be error based because they are coming from the false information generated by your wounds. So forget about them. Do not intend anything. Just desire God and everything will be given, everything will be added unto you, and it will be far more amazing, glorious and loving than whatever you can think about right now. This is True abundance.”",
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                        "text": "God operates by different rules of time and space. And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes possible the very closeness that we desire. A God unbound by our rules of time has the ability to invest in every person on earth. God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.",
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                        "text": "“We do not feel God’s Love because we have chosen to become self-reliant. It is hard for Divine Love to come in when you say ‘Ah, there is no God,’ or ‘I can do this without God.’ We think we can do it all ourselves. Deep in your soul you know there is a God, but it is surrounded with many layers of betrayal, denial and abandonment. You do not feel Divine Love because you do not yet feel or put into action your burning desire for God, you do not yet feel the passion for Truth. You are still identified with the wound. It is by choice and desires that you separated from God, and it is by choice and desire that you come to Union with God also. If you are not receiving Divine Love, and yet you ‘feel’ you are longing for it, then the cause for your not receiving It is that your own longings and desires are not pure, truthful or sincerely motivated, and that you are maybe using these longings to escape feeling your own emotions. This means YOU are lying to yourself, refusing to see your own wounds and be humble to them, being in victim mode or giving your power away to God, hoping He will make it all better.”",
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                        "text": "“To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religionist, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart. St. Bernard stated this holy paradox in a musical quatrain that will be instantly understood by every worshipping soul: We taste Thee, O Thou Living Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still: We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead And thirst our souls from Thee to fill. Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their desire after God. They mourned for Him, they prayed and wrestled and sought for Him day and night, in season and out, and when they had found Him the finding was all the sweeter for the long seeking. Moses used the fact that he knew God as an argument for knowing Him better. \"Now, therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, show me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight\"; and from there he rose to make the daring request, \"I beseech thee, show me thy glory.”",
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                        "text": "“As all men are touched by God’s love, so all are also touched by the desire for His intimacy. No one escapes this longing; we are all kings in exile, miserable without the Infinite. Those who reject the grace of God have a desire to avoid God, as those who accept it have a desire for God. The modern atheist does not disbelieve because of his intellect, but because of his will; it is not knowledge that makes him an atheist…The denial of God springs from a man’s desire not to have a God—from his wish that there were no Justice behind the universe, so that his injustices would fear not retribution; from his desire that there be no Law, so that he may not be judged by it; from his wish that there were no Absolute Goodness, that he might go on sinning with impunity. That is why the modern atheist is always angered when he hears anything said about God and religion—he would be incapable of such a resentment if God were only a myth. His feeling toward God is the same as that which a wicked man has for one whom he has wronged: he wishes he were dead so that he could do nothing to avenge the wrong. The betrayer of friendship knows his friend exists, but he wished he did not; the post-Christian atheist knows God exists, but he desires He should not.”",
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                        "text": "“O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need of further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Thy glory, I pray Thee, that so I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, \"Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.\" Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long. In Jesus' Name, Amen. II  The Blessedness of Possessing Nothing Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.—Matt. 5:3 Before the Lord God made man upon the earth He first prepared for him by creating a world of useful and pleasant things for his sustenance and delight. In the Genesis account of the creation these are called simply \"things.\" They were made for man's uses, but they were meant always to be external to the man and subservient to him. In the deep heart of the man was a shrine where none but God was worthy to come. Within him was God; without, a thousand gifts which God had showered upon him.”",
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                        "text": "“Does God get what God wants? That’s a good question. An interesting question. And it’s an important question that has given us much to discuss. But there’s a better question. One that we actually can answer. One that takes all of the speculation about the future, which no one has been to and returned with hard empirical evidence, and brings it back to one absolute we can depend on in the midst of all of this which turns out to be another question. It’s not, “Does God get what God wants?” but “Do we get what we want?” and the answer to that is a resounding, affirming, sure and certain yes. Yes, we get what we want, God is that loving. If we want isolation, despair, and the right to be our own god, God graciously grants us that option. If we insist on using our God-given power and strength to make the world in our own image, God allows us that freedom and we have that kind of license to do that. If we want nothing to do with light, love, hope, grace, and peace God respects that desire on our part and we are given a life free from any of those realities. The more we want nothing to do with what God is, the more distance and space is created. If we want nothing to do with love, we are given a reality free from love. If, however, we crave light, we’re drawn to truth, we’re desperate for grace, we’ve come to the end of our plots and schemes and we want someone else’s path, God gives us what we want. If we have this sense that we have wandered far from home and we want to return, God is there standing in the driveway arms open, ready to invite us in. If we thirst for Shalom and we long for the peace that transcends all understanding, God doesn’t just give, they are poured out on us lavishly, heaped until we are overwhelmed. It’s like a feast where the food and wine do not run out. These desires can start with the planting of an infinitesimally small seed in our heart, or a yearning for life to be better, or a gnawing sense that we are missing out, or an awareness that beyond the routine and grind of life there is something more, or the quiet hunch that this isn’t all there is. It often has it’s birth in the most unexpected ways, arising out of our need for something we know we do not have, for someone we know we are not. And to that, that impulse, craving, yearning, longing, desire God says, “Yes!”. Yes there is water for that thirst, food for that hunger, light for that darkness, relief for that burden. If we want hell, if we want heaven then they are ours. that’s how love works, it can’t be forced, manipulated, or coerced. It always leaves room for the other to decide. God says, “yes”, we can have what we want because love wins.”",
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                        "text": "“Curiously enough, it is a fear of how grace will change and improve them that keeps many souls away from God. They want God to take them as they are and let them stay that way. They want Him to take away their love of riches, but not their riches—to purge them of the disgust of sin, but not of the pleasure of sin. Some of them equate goodness with indifference to evil and think that God is good if He is broad-minded or tolerant about evil. Like the onlookers at the Cross, they want God on their terms, not His, and they shout, “Come down, and we will believe.” But the things they ask are the marks of a false religion: it promises salvation without a cross, abandonment without sacrifice, Christ without his nails. God is a consuming fire; our desire for God must include a willingness to have the chaff burned from our intellect and the weeds of our sinful will purged. The very fear souls have of surrendering themselves to the Lord with a cross is an evidence of their instinctive belief in His Holiness. Because God is fire, we cannot escape Him, whether we draw near for conversion or flee from aversion: in either case, He affects us. If we accept His love, its fires will illumine and warm us; if we reject Him, they will still burn on in us in frustration and remorse.”",
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