--- title: "Meaning & Key Takeaway of: God would never inspire me with desires…" description: "\"God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.\" — Anonymous" image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee4/anonymous-1_desire_god-would-never-inspire-me-with-desires_2608313.jpg" --- # God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be… ![“God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee4/anonymous-1_desire_god-would-never-inspire-me-with-desires_2608313.jpg) [Download](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee4/anonymous-1_desire_god-would-never-inspire-me-with-desires_2608313.jpg) [Open image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee4/anonymous-1_desire_god-would-never-inspire-me-with-desires_2608313.jpg) > “God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.” [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) ## About This Quote This interpretation was drafted with AI assistance. It is one reading of the quote, not the author's own explanation. Hope can inspire noble aspirations even when resources are limited. **In simple terms:** Hope drives saintly ambition despite small means. Key Takeaway Aim for virtue, not material success. Themes faith hope humility Mood inspirational contemplative Type philosophical motivational When to use this quote - personal growth - religious practice - charitable work Key Concepts spirituality ethics Questions to Reflect On - What modest actions reflect saintly intent? - How does hope sustain effort? A Different Perspective Idealism may be unrealistic without practical steps. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet [Desire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/desire/) [God Inspire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/god-inspire-493146/) [Hope Saint](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hope-saint-2004466/) [Inspiration](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/inspiration/) [Inspire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/inspire/) [Littleness Hope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/littleness-hope-2004467/) [Lord](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lord/) [Saint](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/saint/) [Spite](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/spite/) [Spite Littleness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/spite-littleness-2004465/) ## Related quotes > [I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity; in important things, diversity; in all things, generosity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bush/i-take-as-my-guide-the-hope-of-a-saint-in-crucial-things-unity-in/) [George Bush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-bush/) > [Truly, hope is the saint's covering, wherein he wraps himself, when he lays his body down to sleep in the grave: "My flesh," saith…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-gurnall/truly-hope-is-the-saint-s-covering-wherein-he-wraps-himself-when-he/) [William Gurnall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-gurnall/) > [The good God would not inspire unattainable desires.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/therese-of-lisieux/the-good-god-would-not-inspire-unattainable-desires/) [Therese of Lisieux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/therese-of-lisieux/) > [The fulfilling of who you are and your purpose for being here is not found outside, it's trusting God to move you, to inspire…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernie-hudson/the-fulfilling-of-who-you-are-and-your-purpose-for-being-here-is-not/) [Ernie Hudson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernie-hudson/) > [What if the word of God was enough to inspire passionate worship among his people?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-platt/what-if-the-word-of-god-was-enough-to-inspire-passionate-worship/) [David Platt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-platt/) > [Before commencing battle, the Warrior of Light opens his heart and asks God to inspire him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/before-commencing-battle-the-warrior-of-light-opens-his-heart-and/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) > [His hand closed automatically around the fake Horcrux but in spite of everything, in spite of the dark and twisting path he saw stretching…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/his-hand-closed-automatically-around-the-fake-horcrux-but-in-spite-of/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [Come on, it's an American tradition. Apple soup? Mom's homemade chicken pie?' She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. 'It's apple pie and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/come-on-it-s-an-american-tradition-apple-soup-mom-s-homemade-chicken/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [Giese was an unemotional man, but then in the study of Solaris emotion is a hindrance to the explorer. Imagination and premature theorizing are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/giese-was-an-unemotional-man-but-then-in-the-study-of-solaris-emotion/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [This is an ugly and mean world, and only to spite it we mustn't weep. If you want to know, this is the constant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/this-is-an-ugly-and-mean-world-and-only-to-spite-it-we-mustn-t-weep/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/love-may-indeed-love-the-beloved-when-her-beauty-is-lost-but-not/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [From the beginning, Tegan, you were more brother to me than any kin by blood. You still are.” Tegan felt likewise, in spite of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/from-the-beginning-tegan-you-were-more-brother-to-me-than-any-kin-by/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/sleep-is-still-most-perfect-in-spite-of-hygienists-when-it-is-shared/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [Nature consists of facts and of regularities, and is in itself neither moral nor immoral. It is we who impose our standards upon nature,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/nature-consists-of-facts-and-of-regularities-and-is-in-itself-neither/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man's faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on steadily in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/there-is-nothing-which-so-certifies-the-genuineness-of-a-man-s-faith/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) ## More by Anonymous > [And a tear rolled down her cheek, as she said goodbye; because she's walking away, and she's never looking back](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/and-a-tear-rolled-down-her-cheek-as-she-said-goodbye-because-she-s/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [Life is full of change. That's how we learn and grow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/life-is-full-of-change-that-s-how-we-learn-and-grow/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/you-ll-seldom-experience-regret-for-anything-that-you-ve-done-it-is/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/scrabble-the-game-is-available-in-braille-that-s-a-nice-fact-this/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [Everyone needs someone to love, and I choose you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/everyone-needs-someone-to-love-and-i-choose-you/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write,    To thank the God of nature, who conveyed    My soul to me, and with such care…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/this-tale-of-my-sore-troubled-life-i-write-to-thank-the-god-of-nature/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [Put on my J's and dance the whole night away Im naughty by nature like Im hip-hop hooray With my hands in the sky,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/put-on-my-j-s-and-dance-the-whole-night-away-im-naughty-by-nature/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [Me.. I have been through a lot, but I still manage to have a smile on my face. Im not worried about the past…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/me-i-have-been-through-a-lot-but-i-still-manage-to-have-a-smile-on-my/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [Distance is a test of love. many will fail for those who can't withstand it, but for those who can, theres only one answer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/distance-is-a-test-of-love-many-will-fail-for-those-who-can-t/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [Im sorry I ever tried...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/im-sorry-i-ever-tried/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [Being betrayed by the one you love is the worst feeling in the world...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/being-betrayed-by-the-one-you-love-is-the-worst-feeling-in-the-world/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [Let children support their parents or be imprisoned.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/let-children-support-their-parents-or-be-imprisoned/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [The only person I've ever purposely caused pain here is myself...By simply sharing, caring too much.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-only-person-i-ve-ever-purposely-caused-pain-here-is-myself-by/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [“Start a business, not a startup”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/start-a-business-not-a-startup/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-truth-is-of-course-that-the-curtness-of-the-ten-commandments-is/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Explore all 162,899 Anonymous quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) ## More Desire quotes > [I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ted-martinez/i-put-myself-in-the-student-s-place-and-remember-the-frustrations/) [Ted Martinez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ted-martinez/) > [Passion is what you need to be good, an unforgiving passion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-easton/passion-is-what-you-need-to-be-good-an-unforgiving-passion/) [David Easton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-easton/) > [I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-burns/i-want-the-municipality-to-be-a-helping-hand-to-the-man-with-a-desire/) [John Burns](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-burns/) > [Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-armstrong/ye-youths-and-virgins-when-your-generous-blood-has-drunk-the-warmth/) [John Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-armstrong/) > [I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-douglass/i-have-observed-this-in-my-experience-of-slavery-that-whenever-my/) [Frederick Douglass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-douglass/) > [“THE ESSENCE OF YOUR DESIRE IS A FEELING”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danielle-laporte/the-essence-of-your-desire-is-a-feeling/) [Danielle LaPorte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danielle-laporte/) > [On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-rostand/on-the-brink-of-being-satiated-desire-still-appears-infinite/) [Jean Rostand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-rostand/) > [If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-there-is-any-period-one-would-desire-to-be-born-in-is-it-not-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/he-caught-her-she-fell-he-caught-her-in-his-arms-he-held-her-tightly/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [ Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three \[great teachers\] did not… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/teaching-might-even-be-the-greatest-of-the-arts-since-the-medium-is/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) > [“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dewey/the-deepest-urge-in-human-nature-is-the-desire-to-be-important/) [John Dewey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dewey/) > [In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betsy-lerner/in-discovering-books-you-became-free-to-explore-the-full-range-of/) [Betsy Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betsy-lerner/) > [I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-freeman/i-have-never-been-in-nor-have-i-had-any-strong-particular-desire-to/) [Martin Freeman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-freeman/) > [Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/now-i-am-in-the-place-i-call-this-wide-wide-heaven-because-it/) [Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/) > [“from THE DEVIL YOU KNOW : She wanted him too. He could see it in the rapid rise of her breasts. He could smell…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emery-lee/from-the-devil-you-know-she-wanted-him-too-he-could-see-it-in-the/) [Emery Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emery-lee/) [Browse all 15,155 Desire quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/desire/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anonymous" }, "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/god-would-never-inspire-me-with-desires-which-cannot-be-realized-so/", "about": { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Desire" }, "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/god-would-never-inspire-me-with-desires-which-cannot-be-realized-so/#quotation", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee4/anonymous-1_desire_god-would-never-inspire-me-with-desires_2608313.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee4/anonymous-1_desire_god-would-never-inspire-me-with-desires_2608313.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee4/anonymous-1_desire_god-would-never-inspire-me-with-desires_2608313.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope…” — Anonymous", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } }, { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Anonymous", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "God would never inspire me with...", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/god-would-never-inspire-me-with-desires-which-cannot-be-realized-so/" } ], "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/god-would-never-inspire-me-with-desires-which-cannot-be-realized-so/#breadcrumb" }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } }, { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png", "width": 512, "height": 512 } } ] } ```