Desire Quote by Andrew Bonar

My soul often mourned of more time and opportunity to be alone with God

— David Brainerd

Thirsting desires and longings possessed my soul after perfect holiness. God was so precious to my soul that the world with all its enjoyments…

— David Brainerd

I had an overwhelming experience of the Lord's presence. I felt so powerfully overcome by the nearness of the Holy Spirit that I had…

— Mordecai Ham

When God has given you your heart's desire, what have you done with your heart's desire?

— Jeremiah Burroughs

It was the Lord's love and my recognition of His presence in my life that made me realize how important it was to give…

— Tony Orlando

Of late God has been pleased to keep my soul hungry almost continually, so that I have been filled with a kind of pleasing…

— David Brainerd

I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost…

— Thomas Merton

My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone…

— John Woolman

I was 'alone' amongst the animal kingdom and I required of myself to see what was truly going on inside me so that my…

— Timothy Treadwell

God enabled me to so agonize in prayer that I was quite wet with perspiration, though in the shade and the cool wind. My…

— David Brainerd

I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's…

— Anonymous

My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love.

— Samuel Rutherford