Desire Quote by David Brainerd

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

The Lord filled me with desire, and made me feel that I must be as much with Him alone as with souls in public.

— Andrew Bonar

O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of…

— Anonymous

“O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of…

— A.W. Tozer

The soul’s deepest thirst is for God Himself, who has made us so that we can never be satisfied without Him.

— F. F. Bruce

For my omniscience paid I toll In infinite remorse of soul. All sin was of my sinning, all Atoning mine, and mine the gall…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to…

— Jonathan Edwards

Every natural longing has its natural satisfaction. If we thirst, God has created liquids to gratify thirst. If we are susceptible of attachment, there…

— Frederick William Robertson

The desire, which is accomplished, is sweet to the soul.

— Solomon

The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me

— Orson Pratt

It is certain that the love of God does not consist in this sweetness and tenderness which we for the most part desire; but…

— Teresa of Avila

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

— Ivan Turgenev